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Council on Health Promotion / BY: David May, MD, CCFP July/August 2021
... Both the 2018 Health Canada Framework on Palliative Care[ 2 ] and the BC Centre for Palliative Care[ 3 ] address the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Arielle Roberts, MD July/August 2021
... low cardiorespiratory fitness, which is more than obesity (2% to 3%), smoking (8% to 9%), diabetes (2% to 4%), and high cholesterol (2% to 4%) combined.[ 2 ] The positive effects on patient ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Brian Deady, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... of 1%, a type 1 error of 5%, and absolute precision of 2% (1% ± 2% or 0% to 3%), a sample size of 96 was needed.[ 13 ] ... for COVID-19. Because there were no positive cases, the 2-week telephone follow-up was not conducted. Discussion This ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... penicillin allergy labels after assessment by allergists.[ 2-6 ] Lachover-Roth and colleagues conducted a 56-month ... of the consults by month (mean = 78.4%) in Cerner [ Figure 2 ], and between 45% and 100% (mean = 90.0%) in PharmaNet [ ... largely sustained for the remainder of the study [ Figure 2 ]. The P chart for PharmaNet indicated that changes to the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul J. Oxley, MD, FRCSC October 2021
... key attributes of successful day-care surgery programs[ 2-4 ] and have helped define patient health cutoffs for BMI, ... a day-care surgery setting.[ 8-14 ] Most larger studies[ 2 , 15 ] have focused on one surgical specialty. Recent ... our results to the national average. Results During the 2-year study period, 11 728 procedures were conducted at ...
Letters / BY: Mandana Kaviani, MD September 2021
... between 2015 and 2019 from 723 to 730 megatons of CO 2 equivalent. During the same period, there was a reduction in CO 2 emissions in the UK of more than 10%. This alone shows that ...
Letters / BY: Liz Keay, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, PhD September 2021
... information has been in the public domain since 2016.[ 2 ] The point of Dr Day’s statement is to underline the ...
Obituaries / BY: Patrick Fay, MD September 2021
... form of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) for the past 2 years. Beauty, grace, and intelligence are words that come ... and in 1976 she set sail from Marseille, France, to spend 2 years circumnavigating the globe in a 29-foot sailboat. ... for 25 years and in her private therapeutic practice for 2 decades, training in complementary fields including ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Rhonda Willms, MD September 2021
... friction, or shear from the use of a prosthesis or (2) intrinsic etiologies such as vascular insufficiency, local ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Brandon Tang, MD, MSc September 2021
... have been recognized as essential front-line workers.[ 2 ] However, the unique position of residents as both ... their employment is temporary, lasting anywhere from 2 to 8 years; they are geographically distributed, often ...