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Letters / BY: Jefferson Terry, MD PhD, FRCPC April 2022
... in the journal [ BCMJ 2021;63:383-387 ]. The practice at BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals is to sample for bacteria from areas ... or pregnancy loss in general, is not routinely done at our centre. If I were to test a clinical sample for Mycoplasma or ...
News / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) April 2022
... crisis By Susan D. Martinuk. Winnipeg: Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-7776577-4-1. ... of the ongoing case of Cambie Surgeries Corporation v. BC , initially unsuccessful in the BC Supreme Court in 2020, currently awaiting a decision by ...
News April 2022
... continues to impact rural and remote regions in Northern BC at a disproportionate rate compared with the rest of the ... can also step in to coordinate their transfer to a larger centre through the Patient Transfer Network run by BC Emergency Health Services. The transfer is made to a ...
News April 2022
Doctors of BC has released its 2021 Report to Members , with a focus on ... by the Physician Health Program, by the Rural Coordination Centre of BC, and through divisions of family practice, the Joint ...
Premise / BY: Karen Trollope-Kumar, MD, PhD, CCFP April 2022
... on the website of the National Eating Disorder Information Centre ( www.nedic.ca ). Body Brave is a charitable ... a partnership with Careteam Technologies, founded by BC physician-innovator Dr Alexandra Greenhill. Using the ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Anthony W. Chow, MD, FACP, FRCPC May 2022
In 1980, I wrote an editorial for the BC Medical Journal entitled “The subspecialty of infectious ... Evolution of the Division of Infectious Diseases in BC The University of British Columbia and Vancouver General ... assurance activities. Cross-appointments with the BC Centre for Disease Control These cross-appointments greatly ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ava Azhir, BSc Pharm, ACPR May 2022
... savings of the model were also demonstrated.[ 5 ] In 1995, BC formally incorporated outpatient antimicrobial therapy ... care program at the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre.[ 6 ] These models have provided many benefits to ... a single-centre study in an infusion centre in Surrey, BC, showed that infectious diseases specialists modified the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rahel Zewude, MD May 2022
... testing, management, and prevention of STIs in BC. We focus on those pathogens tested in routine screening, ... vaccination has been part of the immunization schedule in BC since 1992, whereas HPV vaccination was introduced in 2008 ... support is available from the physicians and nurses at BC Centre for Disease Control sexually transmitted infections ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2022
... must be learners and active participants in decolonizing BC’s health care system, returning the right to access ... leadership. Across facilities and communities in BC, doctors are also leading initiatives and projects through ... was launched by the FNHA and the Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc), which is funded by the JCCs. The ...
College Library / BY: Chris Vriesema-Magnuson June 2022
... statistics [ Box ]. Where to find health statistics for BC BC Centre for Disease Control: ...