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Clinical Articles / BY: Amy C. MacArthur, MHSc June 2006
... using a 2-tailed test with 5% alpha. Results Twenty-three people responded to the survey, for an overall response rate ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP December 2006
... most common being depression. • Living circumstances—people living alone, unemployed, or having suffered a recent ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dr J. Mark Ansermino, FFA, MMed, MSc, FRCPC September 2006
... to develop solutions that meet the needs and desires of people in all walks of life. These organizations have ... what seemed impossible by making the complex systems people need in order to get on with their lives into ... to realize that technology cannot act independently of people to improve patient safety. There is little doubt that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Adrian, MD, FRCPC September 2005
... shoulder and lumbar spine MRI findings in asymptomatic people are common, with the prevalence of abnormal MRI findings in asymptomatic people ranging up to 30% to 60%. [1,2]  Asymptomatic MRI ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2005
... being asked include: • Who visits physicians? • Why do people visit physicians? • How necessary are these visits? ... that women visit family physicians more often then men, people of aboriginal descent visit family physicians more often than nonaboriginal people, older people visit family physicians more often than ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Todd Cherniak, LLB September 2005
... the waiting periods are universally too long, with most people not able to obtain timely access to MRI except in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael D.D. McNeely, MD, FRCPC, FCACB July/August 2005
... creatinine tend to be overly liberal. As well, 40% of people with reduced GFR have been found to have normal serum ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jana Patenaude, BSc, MSc October 2005
... diabetes will reach 7.1% by the year 2010. [2] Aboriginal people as a group appear to be at increased risk of ... the prevalence rate of diabetes among the First Nations people in Canada is more than double the rate for the general ... of British Columbia. According to the 2001 census, 2260 people live in the Bella Coola Valley. [14,15]  Bella Coola ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nancy Craven, MD, CCFP July/August 2005
... point of view, even practical. There are too many people at risk for kidney failure and too few nephrologists ... As stated in Recommendation 6 of the BC guidelines, “people with kidney disease have better outcomes if they take ... may have kidney disease. A large percentage of these people have diabetes, high blood pressure (the major causes ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pierre Leichner, MD, FRCPC January/February 2005
... Excellence. Understanding NICE guidance: A guide for people with eating disorders, their advocates and carers, and ...