Canadian task force on preventive health care: We're back! [Le Groupe d'étude canadien sur les soins de santé préventifs: Nous sommes de retour!]

摘要

In 2010 the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) was reconstituted through a funding agreement between the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Its mandate is to develop and disseminate clinical practice guidelines for primary and preventive care, based on systematic analysis of scientific evidence. The CTFPHC (formerly the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination) was originally established in 1976. The initial series of recommendations, the first of its kind, was published as a 61-page peer-reviewed paper in the CMAJ in 1979. Subsequently, in 1994, the CTFPHC published 81 of its recommendations in a compilation called The Canadian Guide to Clinical Preventive Health Care.