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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD January/February 2019
... equilibrium was reached between excretion and bone stores. Health Canada was notified regarding the herbal medication ... As part of new regulations under the BC Public Health Act, as of 1 January 2019, laboratories testing BC ... lead and mercury in blood and urine to the BC Provincial Health Officer, who has delegated the receipt, investigation, ...
Letters / BY: Sarah Fraser, BSc January/February 2019
I recently came across a report while on a public health elective in my fourth year of medical school. ... operated by a contracted provider versus one operated by a health authority, you are 32% more likely to be sent to the ... not only increase the demand on hospital physician and health authority resources ($17 million and over 16 000 ...
Letters / BY: Ranita Manocha, MD, FRCPC January/February 2019
... in sports like wheelchair basketball for social and health benefits. The language we as physicians use has a ...
Letters / BY: John Sehmer, MD January/February 2019
... this assertion. Data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information[ 1 ] found that Alberta and BC have the ... in British Columbia, but there are also myriad other health care issues. It is only reasonable that scarce funds ...
News January/February 2019
PD Connect is a referral program intended to help health care professionals connect individuals diagnosed with ... be made, staff will communicate this with the referring health care professional. For more information and referral ...
News January/February 2019
A 10-year undertaking to track Indigenous health in BC has found improvements in five key areas; however, the gap between the health status of Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents ... of those areas. A report released by the First Nations Health Authority and the Office of the Provincial Health ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP January/February 2019
... relationships; burnout, incivility, and suicide. Health care is always dynamic, but it feels like change—and ... a new model that allows doctors, and, for that matter, all health care professionals, to practise to their scope and ... have traditionally taken on the burden for a large part of health care infrastructure, paying for workspace, supplies, ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2019
... most of the last few months accessing and consuming the health care dollars she contributed through her lifetime of ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD January/February 2019
... my patient families. We don’t have a PACS system in our health region that allows patient photos to be sent, ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS January/February 2019
... directory of guidelines from the last 5 years by Canadian health organizations. Given that the small number of Canadian ... Article Types to “Guideline.”  National Institute for Health and Care. Results from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s Evidence Search ( ...