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Rethinking screening during and after COVID-19
Should things ever be the same again?
James A. Dickinson, Guylène Thériault, Harminder Singh, Olga Szafran and Roland Grad
Canadian Family Physician August 2020; 66 (8) 571-575;
James A. Dickinson
Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
MB BS PhD CCFP FRACGPGuylène Thériault
Academic Lead for the Physicianship Component and the Director of Pedagogy at Outaouais Medical Campus in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Que.
MD CCFPHarminder Singh
Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and in the Department of Hematology and Oncology for CancerCare Manitoba.
MD MPH FRCPCOlga Szafran
Associate Director of Research in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
MHSARoland Grad
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University.
MD CM MSc CCFP FCFP
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Canadian Family Physician
Vol. 66, Issue 8
1 Aug 2020
Rethinking screening during and after COVID-19
James A. Dickinson, Guylène Thériault, Harminder Singh, Olga Szafran, Roland Grad
Canadian Family Physician Aug 2020, 66 (8) 571-575;
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- Article
- Practice scenario
- Priority setting in primary health care
- Key message 1: maintain immunization and infection screening
- What prevention should we do in the catch-up phase and post–COVID-19 world?
- Key message 2: prioritize screening that is strongly recommended at optimal intervals
- Key message 3: change to focused periodic assessments rather than examinations
- Conclusion
- Practice scenario resolution
- Notes
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- References
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