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Clinical Articles / BY: Luke Witherspoon, MD, MSc March 2021
... same relationship they were in when they had a vasectomy.[ 5 ] We review the considerations, prognostic factors, and ... have been reported to range widely from 80.0% to 99.5% depending on the series reported.[ 16 ] Gold standard ... microdot multilayer anastomosis (patency rate of 99.5%), where six ink dots are placed equidistantly beyond the ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Vielka Fernandez March 2021
... to minimize anxiety due to technological complexities.[ 5 ] In light of these challenging circumstances in virtual ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ronald A. Remick, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... a walk of similar length and intensity in an urban area.[ 5 ] While the physical benefits of walking in nature are the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... age group, the First Nations rate for nonattachment was 88.5% higher than that of non-Indigenous people.[ 1 ] The review ... To 31 October 2020, First Nations died from overdoses at a 5.5 times higher rate than other residents, with the gap ...
Premise / BY: Hannah Lishman, PhD March 2021
... an exemplary decline in antibiotic use in children under 5 years of age, most dramatically evident in infants under 1 ... 2000 and 2014 the incidence of asthma in children under 5 years declined by 26%, from 27.3 to 20.2 diagnoses per 1000 ... under 1 year and incidence of asthma in children under 5 years at the provincial population level, with a projected ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... of chest wall fractures, including fractured ribs.[ 5 , 6 ] While the weight of evidence has been in favor of ... (via Ovid), and Google Scholar were searched between 5 December 2017 and 16 January 2018, and the search was ... diagnosis found ultrasound to be superior to X-ray.[ 5 , 17-19 , 22 ] Discussion The results of the literature ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC April 2021
... 90% following the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.[ 5 ] Among those who were symptomatic, the risk of ... 1 and is sustained thereafter for the duration studied.[ 5 , 6 ] Encouragingly, asymptomatic disease and viral loads ... appear to be reduced after the first vaccination dose.[ 5 ] However, given that less than 4 months have passed since ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Laidlaw, MD, FRCPC April 2021
... to patients who meet all four of the following criteria:[ 5 ] Is suffering from a disorder of the mind that seriously ... related to the provision of psychiatric treatment.”[ 5 ] Examples of psychiatric treatment include use of ... of this distinction is highlighted in recommendation 5 of the BC Ombudsperson Special Report No. 42, Committed to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sanya Ranchal, BSc April 2021
... an ectopic pregnancy is a previous ectopic pregnancy.[ 4 , 5 ] Women with a prior ectopic pregnancy have a 10-times ... minimize the risk of interassay variability, which can be 5% to 10%.[ 10 ] Decreasing b-hCG levels strongly suggest a ... In a normal pregnancy, a gestational sac is visualized at 5 weeks gestation (3 weeks after conception), when it is 2 to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul J. Oxley, MD, FRCSC April 2021
... arrhythmia, asystole, and cardiac arrest can occur.[ 5 , 6 ] This reflex is encountered primarily with pathology ...