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Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB June 2021
... was my even earlier “hands-on” experience as a 5-year-old Crown witness (then one of the youngest in legal ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD June 2021
... MD. Vancouver: Page Two Books, 2021. ISBN 978-1-989603-89-5. Hardcover, 224 pages The mastermind behind this history of ...
News June 2021
... for this grant. What are the requirements? A minimum of 0.5 FTE of IPT position is required to apply for this grant. To ...
News, COVID-19 June 2021
... they apply via the CONTAIN study’s online portal within 5 days of being diagnosed with COVID-19. Eligible ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Hasina Samji, PhD, MSc June 2021
... health services they had accessed prior to the pandemic.[ 5 ] Although there has been an increase during the pandemic ... expensive, or difficult for young adults to find.[ 3 , 5 ] Declining physical activity, escalating sedentary ...
MDs To Be / BY: Faizan Bhatia, MD June 2021
... associated Twitter accounts, while 94.3%, 64.8%, and 62.5%, of journals had associated YouTube, Facebook, and ... category in Figure 1 signify quartile 1 to 4: Q1 (< 244.5), Q2 (244.5 < < 278), Q3 (278 < < 332), Q4 (> 332), while those in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Catherine Zhou, MD, MSc July/August 2021
... and significant complications after abdominal surgery,[ 1-5 ] with an incidence rate as high as 2.4%.[ 1 ] Adhesions ... is the indication for 37.3% of emergency laparotomies.[ 5 ] For patients who require hospital admission, the average ... of patients in the preimplementation group (95% CI, −5.722 to −0.645; P = 0.015). Secondary outcomes Successful ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul R. D’Alessandro, MD, MSc, FRCPC July/August 2021
... circulation. A CT of the abdomen revealed a 7.0 × 5.6 × 7.7 cm heterogeneous mass arising from the left ... and thyroid cancer, leukemias, lymphomas, and sarcomas.[ 5 , 6 ] She remains well at age 9 with no recurrence, ... was within upper normal limits. On a subsequent visit, 5 days prior to referral to our centre, the patient disclosed ...
MDs To Be / BY: Arielle Roberts, MD July/August 2021
... encourage increased physical activity in their patients.[ 5 ] While exercise and physical activity are not the same ... will be to walk for 20 to 30 minutes, at least 5 days per week. Start with 10 minutes, and once that feels ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Brian Deady, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... health care workers among on-duty hospital personnel,[ 1-5 ] others have not.[ 6 , 7 ] Mass COVID-19 screening of ... with the anticipated prevalence of 1%, a type 1 error of 5%, and absolute precision of 2% (1% ± 2% or 0% to 3%), a ... wards in our hospital based on published data.[ 1-5 , 8 , 11 ] While it is noteworthy that the study that ...