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Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2006
... health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Improved HRQOL may also lead to fewer office visits and hospitalizations and ... central coast region of British Columbia. According to the 2001 census, 2285 people live in the Bella Coola Valley, and ... with more severe complications would better clarify this issue. [8] Conclusions Strengths of our study include the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce C. Carleton, PharmD, September 2006
... cited serious and life-threatening ADRs to be a safety issue of concern. The effect of this apparent concern has ... difficulty of recognizing ADRs when they occur. Clinicians may believe another member of the health care team will ... use is corroborated by BC PharmaNet data (1998 to 2001), which indicate that, on average, over 530 000 children ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2005
... central coast region of British Columbia. According to the 2001 census 2285 people live in the Bella Coola Valley, and ... living in the Bella Coola Valley between August 2001 and May 2002. Questionnaires were mailed out three times: the ... more difficult for others to even recognize this important issue.” [56] The finding of a relationship between ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Westby, MD September 2005
... working in the far north of New Zealand in the winter of 2001. I rotated about small rural Maori communities doing ... be scanned into his permanent records. Members may be interested to know that duplicate prescriptions date ... attach these into an EMR system is a significant resource issue as it takes up both the time of the physician and staff ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS May 2005
... study was completed in January (Wave 1 was completed in 2001). Results are consistent with 2001, with the  Journal  ... $10 000 to $15 000 range. The problem is that this limit may be inadequate given the bylaws exposure on an individual ... permit and the type of permit this person will receive. We issue two types of parking permits: permanent (valid for 3 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cynthia Fan, MD October 2005
... use in BC grew by 5.5% between the fiscal years ending in 2001 and 2002, declined by 0.6% over the course of the next ... controlled trials and meta-analyses examining this issue. [4-16]  The most recent attempt to answer the ... data from 23 April to 15 June, two collected from 1 May to 15 July, and three collected from 15 April to 15 July. ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... reveals that practices concerning HIV test counseling may not be optimal. Common shortcuts in counseling—giving ... areas of more than 100 000 residents (according to the 2001 Canadian census) were classified in this study as urban. ... to generalize from this sample, primarily because of the issue of self-selection. Physicians who are more involved in ...
Letters / BY: Erik T. Paterson, MD December 2003
... by far their most important concerns—and the issues that may ultimately drive physicians away. Financial incentives to ... physician input into system reform was the most important issue to rural physicians and indeed to all physicians. The ... negotiation of the Rural Subsidiary Agreement of 2001, and in conjunction with UBC, financial support has been ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul C. Adams, MD March 2002
... ). As described in  Dr Samuel Krikler's article  in this issue of the  BCMJ , a screening study of 1905 adult men ... of iron overload or deficiency and focus on those that may require phlebotomy therapy. However, it also detects a ... Life and Health Insurance Association Annual Meeting 2001) about insurance ratings based on hemochromatosis ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Allen, MD June 2002
The work of Dr Charles Galasko and colleagues  in this issue of the BCMJ outlines some of the claims rates in ... these provisos, there are some general statistics that may be of interest. The whiplash rate in various Western ... Columbia, oral and written communications, June and July 2001.) In BC, the whiplash claims rate is currently about 900 ...