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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 ... disease prevalence of hospital personnel to be 1%, based on the range of 0% to 14% reported in the literature.[ 1-9 , 11 , 12 ] For a cross-sectional study with the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... had allergies documented in another electronic system.[ 1 ] Multiple studies have reported persistence of erroneous ... to help guide tests of change in improvement [ Figure 1 ]. Interventions We initially developed a standardized ... drug allergy status prior to patient visits. Within 1 month of each test of change intervention, we interviewed ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul J. Oxley, MD, FRCSC October 2021
... is the largest and fastest growing health region in BC.[ 1 ] This rapid growth has put considerable pressure on local ... patients who underwent surgical procedures at JPOCSC from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2017, including those who had a ... a later date. We also reviewed the readmission rate within 1 week of discharge to capture any outliers. These data were ...
Letters / BY: Liz Keay, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, PhD September 2021
... potential conflict of interest in his bio on our website.[ 1 ] Regarding Justice Steeves’ personal information, he ...
Obituaries / BY: Paul Wright, MD September 2021
... He completed his residency at UBC in 1975. He spent 1 year on the “western” rotation under Drs Kennedy and ...
News September 2021
... free spoken language interpreting services as part of a 1-year pilot project, funded by the Specialist Services ... How specialists can connect with an interpreter: Call 1 833 718-2154 (toll free). Select a language. Enter your ...
News September 2021
... . To order free print copies, call (toll-free) 1 877 952-3181. News BC Seniors’ Guide, updated ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Rhonda Willms, MD September 2021
... is still present. Residual limb pain may result from (1) extrinsic sources such as undue pressure, friction, or ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Brandon Tang, MD, MSc September 2021
... their relative success in managing the COVID-19 pandemic.[ 1 ] As part of the pandemic response, resident physicians ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Jiwei Li, MD September 2021
... 700 000 to over 17 million as of June 2021.[ 1 ] BC doctors have quickly adapted to practising differently ...