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Letters /
BY: Laurence W. Lee, MD, FRCPC
October 2017
... the appropriate preformatted documents, be they admission notes, progress notes, consultations, or discharge summaries, ... without the need to repeat data entry. The history of past health would be repeated automatically on the admitting ... data would be added the next time in the history of past health section. A discharge summary could be primarily ...
News /
BY: Laura McLean
March 2017
The American Medical Association notes that there are over 48 000 genetic tests currently available for health risk screening or diagnostic purposes, and the number ... of genetic testing for individuals seeking life and health insurance. The Canadian Coalition for Genetic Fairness ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Colin Jackson, MD, FRCSC
May 2017
... violence is one of the risks that come with working in health care. Physicians who work in environments where ... A Canadian Medical Association Journal article[ 1 ] notes that almost all primary care physicians experience ... increase with the growing number of patients with mental health and substance abuse problems. The physical and ...
Premise /
BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP
May 2017
... difficult conversations about end-of-life care. Exploding health care costs, expanding need for seniors’ health care, opioid overuse, and controversies about futile ... as physicians or our patient’s needs?[ 2 ] Nuland also notes how sometimes physicians will provide false hope in an ...
News
January/February 2017
A recent study by UBC medical researchers examined the health care costs associated with lumpectomy patients ... double recommended targets, the additional cost to BC’s health care system alone is $2 million per year. Study author ... targets, and report cards provided to surgeons. Dr Baliski notes that, in Canada, 23% of women require additional ...
News
July/August 2016
... the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health have proven that multiple sclerosis can be caused by a ... Research Chair at UBC and director of Vancouver Coastal Health’s MS and Neuromyelitis Optica Clinic, notes that if a person has this gene, chances are they will ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Andrew Hurlburt, MD
April 2016
... become pregnant should discuss all travel plans with their health care provider to assess their risk for Zika exposure ... and unclear duration of persistence in tissues, the Public Health Agency of Canada recommends that women returning from ... that her pregnancy might be affected. The patient notes that she and her husband did get a few mosquito bites ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
May 2016
... glance at the referral form and then send it back to the health region for booking. Another similar frustration is to ... short-term/long-term disability updates, medical EI, notes for physiotherapy/massage/work ...
News
July/August 2016
... SFU Professor Diane Gromala supervised the work and notes that the game is the latest in the lab’s efforts to develop virtual reality approaches to address health care issues. Professor Gromala holds a Canada Research ...
News
November 2016
... forecasting analyses, combining population statistics and health data for BC, and concluded that between 2010 and 2030 ... that factor is often ignored. Lead author Amir Khakban, health economist in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at ... and the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, notes that age-adjusted COPD rates have remained constant as ...