Guide­lines cur­rently under de­vel­op­ment by the Cana­dian Task Force on Pre­ven­tive Health Care (ctfphc) in­clude:

The Cana­dian Task Force on Pre­ven­tive Health Care (ctfphc) met in early 2010 to es­tab­lish topic pri­or­i­ties and have begun the guide­line de­vel­op­ment process.

  • Screen­ing for prostate can­cer
  • Screen­ing for obe­sity
  • Screen­ing for child obe­sity
  • Screen­ing for col­orec­tal can­cer
  • Screen­ing for de­vel­op­men­tal delay
  • Screen­ing for cog­ni­tive im­pair­ment
  • Screen­ing for lung can­cer

If you would like to sug­gest a topic for the ctfphc, please con­tact us.

2013

2012

2011

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

  • Pe­ri­odic Health Ex­am­i­na­tion, 1999 up­date: 1. De­tec­tion, pre­ven­tion and treat­ment of obe­sity pdf (cmaj)
  • Pre­ven­tive Health Care, 1999 up­date: 2. Echocar­dio­g­ra­phy for the de­tec­tion of a car­diac source of em­bo­lus in pa­tients with stroke pdf (cmaj)
  • Pre­ven­tive Health Care, 1999 up­date: 3. Fol­low-up after breast can­cer pdf (cmaj)
  • Pre­ven­tive Health Care, 1999 Up­date: Pre­ven­tion of oral can­cer Mor­tal­ity pdf (cda)
  • Ef­fec­tive dis­sem­i­na­tion and im­ple­men­ta­tion of Cana­dian Task Force guide­lines on Pre­ven­tive Health Care: lit­er­a­ture re­view and model de­vel­op­ment pdf
  • Elec­tronic dis­sem­i­na­tion of Cana­dian clin­i­cal prac­tice guide­lines to health care pro­fes­sion­als and the pub­lic pdf

1996

  • Pe­ri­odic Health Ex­am­i­na­tion, 1996 Up­date: 1. Pre­na­tal screen­ing for and di­ag­no­sis of Down syn­drome pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic Health Ex­am­i­na­tion, 1996 Up­date: 2. Screen­ing for chlamy­dial in­fec­tions pdf (PubMed)
  • Cover Story: Abo­rig­i­nal Health pdf (Li­brary and Archives Canada)

1995

  • Pe­ri­odic Health Ex­am­i­na­tion, 1995 Up­date: 1. Screen­ing for human pa­pil­lo­mavirus in­fec­tion in asymp­to­matic women pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic Health Ex­am­i­na­tion, 1995 Up­date: 2. Pre­ven­tion of den­tal caries pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic Health Ex­am­i­na­tion, 1995 Up­date: 3. Screen­ing for vi­sual prob­lems among el­derly pa­tients pdf (PubMed)

1994

1993

  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1993 up­date: 1. Pri­mary pre­ven­tion of child mal­treat­ment pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1993 up­date: 2. Low­er­ing the blood total cho­les­terol level to pre­vent coro­nary heart dis­ease pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1993 up­date: 3. Pe­ri­odon­tal dis­ease: clas­si­fi­ca­tion, di­ag­no­sis, risk fac­tors and pre­ven­tion pdf (PubMed)

1992

  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1992 up­date: 1. Screen­ing for ges­ta­tional di­a­betes pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1992 up­date: 2. Rou­tine pre­na­tal ul­tra­sound screen­ing pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1992 up­date: 3. HIV an­ti­body screen­ing pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1992 up­date: 4. Pro­phy­laxis for gono­coc­cal and chlamy­dial oph­thalmia neona­to­rum pdf (PubMed)

1991

  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1991 up­date: 1. Screen­ing for cog­ni­tive im­pair­ment in the el­derly pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1991 up­date: 2. Ad­min­is­tra­tion of pneu­mo­coc­cal vac­cine pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1991 up­date: 3. Sec­ondary pre­ven­tion of prostate can­cer pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1991 up­date: 4. Screen­ing for cys­tic fi­bro­sis pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1991 up­date: 5. Screen­ing for ab­dom­i­nal aor­tic aneurysm pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1991 up­date: 6. Acetyl­sal­i­cylic acid and the pri­mary pre­ven­tion of car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease pdf (PubMed)

1990

  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1990 up­date: 1. Early de­tec­tion of hy­per­thy­roidism and hy­pothy­roidism in adults and screen­ing of new­borns for con­gen­i­tal hy­pothy­roidism pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1990 up­date: 2. Early de­tec­tion of de­pres­sion and pre­ven­tion of sui­cide pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1990 up­date: 3. In­ter­ven­tions to pre­vent lung can­cer other than smok­ing ces­sa­tion pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1990 up­date: 4. Well-baby care in the first 2 years of life pdf (PubMed)
  • Early de­tec­tion of de­pres­sion by pri­mary care physi­cians pdf (PubMed)
  • Gold­bloom R.B., Lawrence R. (eds). Pre­vent­ing Dis­ease: Be­yond the Rhetoric. Springer-Ver­lag, New York, 1990.
  • Pre­ven­tion of Sui­cide pdf (PubMed)
  • Woolf S.H., Bat­tista R.N., An­der­son G.M., Logan A.G., Wang E., and other mem­bers of the Cana­dian Task Force on the Pe­ri­odic Health Ex­am­i­na­tion. As­sess­ing the clin­i­cal ef­fec­tive­ness of pre­ven­tive ma­neu­vers: An­a­lytic prin­ci­ples and sys­tem­atic meth­ods in re­view­ing ev­i­dence and de­vel­op­ing clin­i­cal prac­tice rec­om­men­da­tions. J Clin Epi­demiol 1990;43(9):891-905.

1989

  • The pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion: 1. In­tro­duc­tion pdf (PubMed)
  • The pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion: 2. 1989 up­date pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1989 up­date: 3. Preschool ex­am­i­na­tion for de­vel­op­men­tal, vi­sual and hear­ing prob­lems pdf (PubMed)
  • Pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion, 1989 up­date: 4. In­tra­partum elec­tronic fetal mon­i­tor­ing and pre­ven­tion of neona­tal her­pes sim­plex pdf (PubMed)

1988

  • Bat­tista R.N., Lawrence R.S. (eds). Im­ple­ment­ing pre­ven­tive ser­vices. Am J Prev Med 1988; Suppl 4(4): i-x, 1-194.
  • The pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion: 1. In­tro­duc­tion pdf (PubMed)
  • The pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion: 2. 1987 up­date pdf (PubMed)

1986

  • The pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion: 1. In­tro­duc­tion pdf (PubMed)
  • The pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion: 2. 1985 up­date pdf (PubMed)
  • The Pe­ri­odic Health Ex­am­i­na­tion: 3. Breast Can­cer pdf (PubMed)

1984

  • The pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion: 1. In­tro­duc­tion pdf (PubMed)
  • The pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion: 2. 1984 up­date pdf (PubMed)
  • The pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion: 3. An evolv­ing con­cept pdf (PubMed)

1980

  • Re­port of a Task Force to the Con­fer­ence of Deputy Min­is­ters of Health (cat no H39-3/1980E), Health Ser­vices and Pro­mo­tion Branch, De­part­ment of Na­tional Health and Wel­fare, Ot­tawa, 1980.

1979

  • Cana­dian Task Force on the Pe­ri­odic Health Ex­am­i­na­tion. The pe­ri­odic health ex­am­i­na­tion. cmaj 1979;121:1193-1254.