Module 2: Direct Comprehensive Primary Care in the LTC Setting

27 2.2.9 Preventative Care, Screenings & Immunizations

  • Primary care in the LTC setting
  • Preventative Care & Screening in alignment with guidelines
  • LTC Admission Screening

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care Screening Recommendations:

  • Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
  • Breast Cancer
  • Cervical Cancer
  • Colorectal Cancer (CRC)

Prostate Cancer[1][2][3][4][5]

Immunizations

  • Alignment with recommendations & guidelines
  • Influenza
  • COVID-19
  • Tetanus and Diphtheria (Td) vaccine
  • Pneumococcal
  • Herpes Zoster vaccine
  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)[6]
  1. Canadian Task Force on Preventive Care, 2013 ↵
  2. Canadian Task Force on Preventive Care, 2016 ↵
  3. Canadian Task Force on Preventive Care, 2017 ↵
  4. Canadian Task Force on Preventive Care, 2018 ↵
  5. Mason et al., 2022 ↵
  6. Public Health Ontario, 2019 ↵

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