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Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC July/August 2019
... source and, therefore, the history is not completed.[ 5 ] The title of this letter brings out a specific and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lauri McCoy MD, CFPC July/August 2019
... and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale (CSHA Scale). A category 5 clinical frailty score correlates with declining function ... activities of daily living and predicts a 50% mortality in 5 years.[ 2 ] If we add the stepwise trajectory of the normal ... for our patients. One can see that a frailty score of 5 added to one to two hospitalizations in a year ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC July/August 2019
... or when people flush pills into the wastewater system.[ 3,5,10 ] Effluent released from wastewater treatment plants ... environments has been shown to contain a variety of CECs.[ 5,11-13 ] Conventional wastewater treatment partially removes ... at their Seattle and Sinclair Inlet/Bremerton sites of 1.5 ng/g, 1.2 ng/g, and 0.68 ng/g of meat (oral communication ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Farshad Hosseini, BSc July/August 2019
... specialists in accordance with published guidelines.[ 5 ] Study subjects were adult orthopaedic surgery patients ... or IX activity in plasma. Mild hemophilia was defined as 5% to 40% of normal activity, moderate hemophilia as 1% to 5% of normal activity, and severe hemophilia as less than 1% ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Benjamin Ng, July/August 2019
... in fentanyl-related overdoses and deaths. In the course of 5 years the number of drug-related fatalities increased more ... shown incidence rates of 0.8%,[ 3 ] 2.4%,[ 4 ] and 2.1%.[ 5 ] This last rate found by Sporer and Dorn[ 5 ] is notable for being from the most recent and largest ...
Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC September 2019
... split the vote (say 51% to 49%), you realize that 12.5% of the population decides who rules 100% of the ...
News / BY: Jeremy Hunka September 2019
... has just a single neurosurgeon serving approximately 5 million people. Over the past 17 years, KBNF has ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD September 2019
... after I am off call, after I have gotten through the 4 to 5 hours of patients booked in my office and caught up on the ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Gordon Hoag, MD September 2019
... budget based on the 2019 Physician Master Agreement is $10.5 million.  Examples of past PQI projects include reducing ...
Back Page / BY: Jim Petzold, MD September 2019
... I looked up to see a young woman approaching with her 5-year-old son in tow. She wanted her son to meet the doc who ...