Canada’s first telepediatric intensive care service (tele-PICU) provides children with increased access to specialized care closer to their home community. Tele-PICU allows teams at BC Children’s or Victoria General Hospital to assess children through real-time, two-way videoconferencing using high-resolution cameras and digital stethoscopes that enable physicians and nurses to see patients as well as to listen to and amplify sounds of the heart and lungs of seriously ill or injured children.
The Bugs & Drugs resource is now available in an online format for BC users at www.bugsanddrugs.org. The website is accessible only to IP addresses from within BC.
Bugs & Drugs is the recommended reference for management of infectious diseases and appropriate antimicrobial use. It is peer reviewed, evidence based, and frequently updated. Bugs & Drugs is supported by the Do Bugs Need Drugs? program and is funded in BC by the BC Ministry of Health, Pharmaceutical Services Division.
Thank you for your well-researched response to the GPSC column in the January/February issue of the BCMJ. We acknowledge that iterations of the term patient medical home have been broadly used by health care organizations in other countries and over the course of many years. The College of Family Physicians of Canada’s terminology that we referenced in this article specifically relates to the care model upon which the GPSC has based its work.
I enjoyed the patient medical home article in the January/February issue (BCMJ 2017;59:15-17) but would offer possible corrections to the origins of the patient medical home. Paragraph 3 states that the “overall concept” of the patient medical home comes from the College of Family Physicians of Canada, referencing an article from 2016.
