Our guiding principle:
“We don’t care what the evidence shows, we will show you the evidence.”
Our Focus
- Tools for Practice (TFP): Concise, evidence-based clinical reviews published biweekly, providing primary care practitioners with practical insights. Led by Adrienne Lindblad, TFPs reach over 40,000 healthcare professionals.
- Simplified Guidelines: Primary-care-led, without pharmaceutical industry conflicts and based on systematic reviews, our guidelines prioritize patient-oriented outcomes and shared decision-making.
- Decision Aids: all our guidelines have decision aids to foster shared decision making.
- Continuing Education Events: PEER organizes Practical Evidence for Informed Practice (PEIP)—Alberta’s largest primary care conference—as well as MEME (Vancouver), PEER North (Yellowknife), and the upcoming PEER South.
- Primary Care Research: PEER conducts clinically relevant primary care research – both organically and under the Dr. Scott Garrison led Pragmatic Trials Collaborative (PTC).
PEER Team Values
- By primary care, for primary care
- Simplifying medical information
- Minimizing bias
- Focusing on patient-oriented outcomes
- Encouraging shared decision-making
- Having fun!
PEER collaborates with leading healthcare organizations, including the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), provincial family physician chapters (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario) and universities. With a commitment to making evidence understandable and promoting shared decision-making, PEER produces high-quality medical information based on evidence that truly matters – to both practitioners and patients.
