Letters /
BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2020
... combined estrogen and progestin ranges from 1.3 to 2.0 for 5+ and 10+ years of usage respectively.[ 2 , 3 ] The ... a relative risk of 1.73 after an initial false positive.[ 5 ] In clarification of our methodology, please note that ...
News
January/February 2020
... Part 3. Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 6 p.m. Session 5: GPSC Billing Part 4. Tuesday, 3 March 2020, 6 p.m. Session ...
Editorials /
BY: Brian Day, MB
January/February 2020
... to severe pain and functional deficit”) to priority 5 (“mild pain, tolerable functional deficit”) in order to ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Shelley Ross, MD
January/February 2020
... between $4000 and $8000). The GPSC has allocated $19.5 million annually for these payments. Determining ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Henry Lau, RD
January/February 2020
... and services, such as social assistance programs.[ 5 ] The Northern Health Authority also developed a resource ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Matthew D. Burkey, MD, PhD, MPH
January/February 2020
... risk for substance use disorders in North America.[ 5 ] The same meta-analysis estimated the total annual ... life-years equivalent to savings of US$56 billion.[ 5 ] So what specific steps can physicians take to prevent and ... than 10% of patient encounters were prolonged by more than 5 minutes when trauma was identified.[ 13 ] When patients ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Konia Trouton, MD, CCFP, MPH, FCFP
January/February 2020
... Likert scale from strongly agree to strongly disagree and 5 open-ended questions. For the purposes of the study, ... to improve bereavement care for family and friends. On 5 September 2019 an email invitation containing a link to the ... open-ended questions that required narrative responses. On 5 September 2019, an email invitation to complete the survey ...
Letters /
BY: Jeffrey Eppler, MD
March 2020
... agents are primarily mediated through agonism at the 5-HT2A receptor (a class of serotonin receptor) in the brain. ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Ernest Salcedo
March 2020
... will be held at Robson Square in Vancouver on 4 and 5 December 2020. We are partnering our annual conference with ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP
March 2020
... are eligible to donate blood, only 1 in 25 does.[ 4 , 5 ] Last year more than 410 000 donors visited clinics across ...