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Clinical Articles / BY: Fahra Rajabali, MSc September 2018
... care system, and society at large. This public health issue directly affects the practice of physicians who must ... social marketing campaign.[ 16 ] One program that may have contributed to the decrease in self-harm costs from ... at the Vancouver General Hospital Trauma Centre in 2014.[ 19 ] The program addresses alcohol as a risk factor, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP November 2018
... other antihyperglycemic agents can confuse physicians and may result in widely variable quality of care as well as ... indicates that “For guidelines published after 2014, lists of contributors may be published on the ... for their part in supporting the publication of this theme issue. Competing interests This and the other articles in the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Derek Smith, MD, FRCSC September 2018
... with possible surgical pathology, such as osteoarthritis, may be referred to an orthopaedic surgeon, who often repeats ... the importance of obtaining weight-bearing X-rays. But the issue is hardly limited to Canada. A 2012 British study found ... orthopaedic clinic had had weight-bearing films. Another 2014 British study found 98% of nontraumatic knee radiographs ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Courtney Young, MBA, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... attention was focused on how QI could favorably affect the issue of medical errors. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) was ... often navigate multiple care interfaces and consequently may experience fragmented care and poor outcomes.[ 5 ] This ... November 2016. www.waittimealliance.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CCS-Building-a-Heart-Healthy-Canada.pdf . Institute ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
... in health care today. We need not look further than the 2014 comparative scorecard from the Commonwealth Fund ... like to bring to the Board this year is temperance. This may help us be more efficient with our work.” . . . “To ... is not a productive use of our time and energy. The issue is that our two work models simply clash. Doctors are ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... all the generalist pieces of being a family doctor my dad may not have had an opportunity that day to receive the best ... the health care needs of our populations. What health care issue do you think is not getting enough attention right now? ... First, the Commonwealth Fund released a report in late 2014 showing that Canada scores 10th out of 11 in First World ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ben Chan, BSc, January/February 2016
... numerous avenues to introduce great change. Some changes may be for the better (such as Dr Semmelweis’s pioneering ... support your work, even if they are passionate about the issue. The goal should also be specific enough for you to be ... numerous businesses and prominent individuals. In 2014 Dr Rai received the Governor General’s Caring Canadian ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD March 2015
... project seeking literary works described in the September 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:349 ) is meant to honor existing ... meantime, an information seeker visiting abcbookworld.com may search for the key words “physician author” to find ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Clayton Chmelik, December 2015
... As part of this process the claim owner or medical advisor may contact you to confirm the worker’s current symptoms, ... treatment recommendations for nonsurgical conditions. In 2014 the VSC’s 41 specialists provided more than 8000 ... WorkSafeBC article published in the January/February 2013 issue of the  BCMJ  (2013:55;17), available online at  ...
Letters / BY: William Gardner, MBChB, April 2014
On 10 February 2014, André Picard’s column in the  Globe and Mail ... I was heartened to see that the January/February 2014 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  had four items on the ... issues. The core problem is a moral one. Though we may disagree with our patients’ moral values, in most cases ...