Description: Guidelines aim to improve patient care by providing clinicians with recommendations based on unbiased assessment of the evidence. They are particularly useful when they address controversial issues but often result in differences in recommendations that can be attributed to many factors such as disease epidemiology, funding, speciality groups, healthcare… Read More
Description: This popular, fast-paced presentation provides answers to common clinical questions in primary care. The audience will select the questions from a list of possible topics and then one of the presenters will review the evidence and provide a bottom-line, all in less than five minutes. Topics will include management… Read More
Description: In 2025, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) will release a new new guideline on interventions for tobacco smoking cessation in Canadian adults. The objective is to provide primary care clinicians with evidence-based recommendations on smoking cessation options for non-pregnant adults who smoke tobacco cigarettes. The… Read More
Description: Celiac disease is a chronic autoimmune enteropathy triggered by eating gluten in genetically susceptible individuals. This common condition affects approximately 1% of children and adults, and epidemiology data from Alberta suggests that the incidence is rising . Diagnosis is confirmed by intestinal biopsy in both adults and children. In… Read More
Description: Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 Canadians, continuing to be a common cause of loss of function, lower quality of life and increased healthcare costs. To improve patient outcomes, large-scale integration of information that changes people’s conceptual understanding of chronic pain while providing access to interdisciplinary care is required. Read More
