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Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... HF mortality.[ 5 ] Serum b-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) may be helpful for prognostication as well, since BNP levels ... Clinic was introduced at St. Paul’s Hospital in January 2011, and later at Vancouver General Hospital. The objective ... revised version of the article published in the June 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:224-229). The authors corrected an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... their activities appropriately, and some physicians may be pressured by colleagues to practise outside their area ... moving to a system of criteria-based privileging. Since 2011 the provincial Privileging Standards Project has been ... the profession, many of which we have discussed here. The issue of currency has been an especially hot topic for ...
Letters / BY: Judith Hammond, July/August 2013
... as one of three gluten-induced conditions.[ 2 ] A small 2011 study recruited 34 patients who self-identified as ... with our patients—there are some aspects of the issue that we understand well, some that are controversial ... mind when communicating with patients: what is dogma today may be called into question by new evidence tomorrow. If all ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... of services in the Northern Health Authority. Home oxygen may be funded by extended health benefits, if available to ... privately if they still want oxygen therapy. Costs For the 2011–2012 fiscal year, British Columbia health authorities ... of home oxygen remains a concern and continues to be an issue for some patients. For example, in Vancouver Coastal ...
Letters / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC May 2013
... the BCMA’s pledge to support its members who are now, or may in the fu­ture become, clinical faculty teachers/mentors ... LOI was at the Section of Clinical Faculty AGM on 5 May 2011 when the BCMA president announced that it was to be ... wording in the LOI calls into question.  I take no issue with those involved in the system, only with the system ...
News July/August 2013
... body in 15 minutes. This homegrown innovation won the 2011 “Best of What’s New” award from Popular Science, a ... for in vivo skin cancer diagnosis,” published in the May 2012 issue of Cancer Re­search. The article can be viewed at ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC June 2012
Opioid overdose is a public health issue in British Columbia. In 2009, more than 200 deaths were ... were in persons prescribed opioid medication.[ 3 ]  In May 2011, the BC Coroners Service released a warning about a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... motor vehicle crashes. From 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011, there were 68 alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths ... in exactly the positive changes that would be expected. In May 2011, opponents of the new laws launched a legal ... of the immediate roadside prohibition program.  At issue was whether the immediate roadside prohibition program ...
MDs To Be / BY: Annika Klopp, BSc, April 2012
In the summer of 2011 we participated in a project to look at the potential of ... experiences, we are concerned the idea of Art Days may be perceived differently than we in­tended. We know in ... values of a patient are different from one’s own.  The issue of cultural safety has moved beyond New Zealand and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD November 2011
... which prevalent antibiotic use is of concern. In the June 2011 issue of Microbe, the report “Restricting anti­microbial ... Now that this is CMA policy the future of medical care may favorably alter, particularly for infectious disease and ...