Recommendations on routine screening pelvic examination: Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care adoption of the American College of Physicians guideline.

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To review the 2014 American College of Physicians (ACP) guideline on the use of pelvic examinations to screen for cancer (other than cervical), pelvic inflammatory disease, or other benign gynecologic conditions to determine whether the ACP guideline on routine pelvic examinations was consistent with Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) standards and could be adapted or adopted.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Can Fam Physician

Title: Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien

ISSN (Electronic): 1715-5258

ISSN (Print): 0008-350X

Publication date (Electronic): Mar 2016

Volume: 62

Issue: 3

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[1 ] Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Research at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary in Alberta. Member of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. info@canadiantaskforce.ca.

[2 ] Was Scientific Advisor in the Prevention Guidelines Division at the Public Health Agency of Canada in Ottawa, Ont.

[3 ] Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. Member of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.

[4 ] Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal, Que. Member of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.

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Publisher Item ID: 62/3/211

PMC ID: 4984604

PubMed ID: 26975912

SO-VID: f4d63d99-961e-4863-bbf5-da272742c1a3

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