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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC June 2019
... influence the treatment of patients with obesity.[ 2 ] It is important to recognize that although obesity can be ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Alana Godin June 2019
... Program (PSP) offers a seven-part learning series ( Table 2 ), supported by in-practice facilitation. No matter the ... to be adaptable, flexible, and streamlined. Sessions are 2.5 hours long and can be tailored to reflect physicians’ ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gordon J.D. Cochrane, Ed. D., R. Psych. June 2019
... between primary relationships and individual well-being.[ 2 , 3 ] Researchers have found that most people are happiest ... factors that are at play in their relationship.[ 2 ] Protecting a primary relationship requires refining the ... effective when communicating within their relationships.[ 2 ] The most common reason for poor communication in ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC July/August 2019
... in Canada (“The Saudi resident and Tillsonburg”).[ 2 ] It is a humorous article similar to some of the ...
News July/August 2019
... these technologies provide value for money. Over the next 2 years, a $500 000 project (funded through Genome BC’s ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lauri McCoy MD, CFPC July/August 2019
... does not fully regain their pre-exacerbation baseline.[ 2 ] Retrospective studies have shown that a hospitalization ... correlates with a 1-year mortality of 10% to 25%.[ 2 ] Each additional hospitalization compounds this ... of daily living and predicts a 50% mortality in 5 years.[ 2 ] If we add the stepwise trajectory of the normal course of ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2019
... a week in the office, a full-service family practice. Then 2 or 3 years later the open heart program at Royal Columbian ... to do? That was in play before I ran for president—we do 2 years secretary, 2 years vice president, 2 years president, and that’s just ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Alana Godin July/August 2019
... data prompted him to open his practice to new patients.[ 2 ] Identifying services and team members appropriately to ... of patients who had a recorded flu vaccine status within 2 months.[ 2 ] Simplifying workflows to help with patient care, such as ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC July/August 2019
... and the chemotherapy drug melphalan, among others.[ 1,2 ] They also found traces of oxycodone in mussels taken at 3 ... an opioid in mussels received extensive media coverage.[ 2-9 ] CECs in water Pharmaceuticals enter the aquatic milieu ... Seattle and Sinclair Inlet/Bremerton sites of 1.5 ng/g, 1.2 ng/g, and 0.68 ng/g of meat (oral communication with James ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Farshad Hosseini, BSc July/August 2019
... arthropathy related to recurrent hemarthrosis.[ 1 , 2 ] The most commonly affected joints are the knees, ankles, ... pain, loss of joint function, and long-term disability.[ 2 ] Orthopaedic surgical intervention can include joint ... more factor VIII than surgeries for other joints [ Figure 2 ]. Factor VIII utilization was compared for two periods: ...