Collaborative Mentorship Network for Chronic Pain and Addiction

Since 2009, Tools for Practice has been proudly sponsored by the ACFP and produced by PEER through a collaboration between a small group of physicians from the University of Alberta

TFP content is developed free of industry bias and is based on the best available evidence. Authors for each article must include at least one practising family physician (for a primary care focus). Other authors have included medical/pharmacy students, specialists (general internal medicine, geriatrics, endocrinology, psychiatry, gastroenterology, neurology, and pulmonology), pharmacists, and nurse practitioners. 

• Topics must have a broad or large application to clinical practice
  • These are selected by a variety of mechanisms including emerging evidence; recent issues in the news; new products with primary care impact; guideline recommendations deviating from the evidence, where standards of care have lagged behind evidence; questions from readers or CME meetings

• All questions must be focused and clear
• Authors perform a search of Medline-PubMed and, frequently, Google Scholar
  • They also review guidelines and track references and cited articles
  • Relevant studies are critically appraised and summarized into the evidence section

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