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Clinical Articles /
BY: Elizabeth Purssell, MD, MSc
September 2022
... in a health authority with a catchment area of 1.9 million people or more. Royal Columbian Hospital sees approximately ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Sahil Kumar, MSc
January/February 2022
... health and well-being of transgender and gender-diverse people. Clinical Articles Gender-affirming surgical care in ...
Joint Collaborative Committees /
BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC
May 2022
... through learning series and training. Advancing Indigenous people’s representation on its committees. Providing ... the time invested and contributions made by Indigenous people at JCC-initiated meetings and events. Supporting ... Developing linkages to local Indigenous communities and people and ensuring good relationships between physicians and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
November 2021
... through the bowel, but this makes them well tolerated in people on dialysis or with significant renal failure.[ 8 , 9 ... suited to Patient A’s pharmacogenomics. Up to 25% of people have polymorphisms in the genes that control opioid ... rate of ultrarapid metabolism at 21%, and Europeans and people of Jewish lineage have the highest rate of poor ...
Shared Care Committee /
BY: Joanna Cheek, MD, FRCPC
November 2021
... the leading cause of disability in Canada, with one in two people affected by 40 years of age.[ 1 ] Now, COVID-19 has ... outside the public health care system. Consequently, most people end up managing their mental health in primary care,[ ... were comparable to the in-person experience, with more people preferring the virtual groups. The virtual format also ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 /
BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC
March 2021
... A rapid vaccine rollout has many roadblocks, from some people’s initial hesitancy to receive a novel vaccine to ... supply, our society must balance vaccinating as many people as possible in short order with the strict timing ... there was no difference in vaccine efficacy between the people who got their second dose at day 19 and the people who ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ray Markham, MB ChB, MRCGP, FCFP
December 2021
... intersectional approach was also imperative. Historically, people who identify as men have dominated the health ... service sector workers.[ 11 ] Additionally, First Nations people experience disproportionally negative health outcomes ... action items. Partnership groups consisted of people from different organizations or groups coming together ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc
May 2021
... and youth. Among 10- to 17-year-old Canadians, 2140 young people were hospitalized due to self-poisoning during the ... provide free mental health services for children and young people up to 18 years old in BC, although a 2019 BC Coroners ... administered to a large representative sample of young people age 14 to 21 in Victoria, BC, in 2003 and 2005, 17% of ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 /
BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC
June 2021
... surgery.[ 8 ] While prescreening can identify some people who are at increased risk of harboring COVID-19 ... prevalence rates, without preoperative testing, infected people will undergo elective surgery and have an increased ...
Shared Care Committee, COVID-19 /
BY: Graham A.A. Dodd, MSc, MD, CCFP(EM), MADEM
June 2021
... hospitals and medical facilities from being swamped by people who could readily be helped elsewhere in the ...