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Clinical Articles / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP December 2015
... increase in the population catchment area from 2006 to 2011.[ 4 ] The move by full-service family physicians to ... developed. Often dubbed “walk-in care,” such a system may address the issue of timely access but often fails to offer continuity of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... HF mortality.[ 5 ] Serum b-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) may be helpful for prognostication as well, since BNP levels ... Clinic was introduced at St. Paul’s Hospital in January 2011, and later at Vancouver General Hospital. The objective ... revised version of the article published in the June 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:224-229). The authors corrected an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... their activities appropriately, and some physicians may be pressured by colleagues to practise outside their area ... moving to a system of criteria-based privileging. Since 2011 the provincial Privileging Standards Project has been ... the profession, many of which we have discussed here. The issue of currency has been an especially hot topic for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... of services in the Northern Health Authority. Home oxygen may be funded by extended health benefits, if available to ... privately if they still want oxygen therapy. Costs For the 2011–2012 fiscal year, British Columbia health authorities ... of home oxygen remains a concern and continues to be an issue for some patients. For example, in Vancouver Coastal ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper January/February 2012
... strategist, and policy advisor to the BCMA in November 2011. BCMJ managing editor Jay Drap­er spoke to him in ... for in those circumstances where it is a direct one-on-one issue or conflict. And yet now that I’m here, I see so many ... final thoughts? Members who aren’t involved in the BCMA may wonder what goes on here, and they can be assured that ...
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