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Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick H.P. Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... Indigenous people, and people who inject drugs.[ 4 ] In BC, local epidemiology is driven primarily by a large ... is not attributable to sharing utensils.[ 7 ] In BC, most chronic hepatitis B cases are among East and South ... vaccinated if they screen negative for HBV.[ 12 ] The BC Centre for Disease Control Communicable Disease Control ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... or probable Lyme disease. However, and particularly in BC, where Lyme disease occurs infrequently, physicians often ... Epidemiology and distribution of ticks and Lyme disease in BC Historically, BC was well ahead of any other province in ... universally in North America, Europe, and Asia. The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) Public Health Laboratory ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haile Zapata-Dixon June 2022
... communicable and preventable infectious diseases. In BC, most reported cases of shigellosis, rabies, and enteric ... most frequently traveled to Mexico and the UK; among BC travelers, top destinations were China and the UK.[ 9 ] ... posttravel has not been systematically assessed. The BC Centre for Disease Control collects provincial data and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John van Bockxmeer, MBBS July/August 2022
... huddle process.[ 4 ] But has this been our experience in BC? Research has shown that a whiteboard outlining a small ... the outbreak of COVID-19, my primary care community health centre team began a project on developing updated, relevant ... these meaningful multidisciplinary encounters. Summary BC health authorities are investing in team-based primary ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD July/August 2022
... primary care across Canada. Methods We conducted a single-centre prospective study of patients who presented to a multiphysician primary care office in Langley, BC, from 1 November 2020 to 15 February 2021. Approval for ... at a multiphysician primary care clinic in Langley, BC, between 1 November 2020 and 15 February 2021.   Results: ...
Letters / BY: Brian Conway, MD, FRCPC July/August 2022
... distribution of adult infectious diseases services in BC. I am the medical director of the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre in downtown Vancouver. Our three physicians and three ... are often disengaged from care. Our team congratulates the BC Medical Journal for highlighting the importance of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elizabeth Purssell, MD, MSc September 2022
... centres are mainly in Ontario and Quebec, and there is one centre in British Columbia. However, there has been a paucity ... conducted at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, BC. It is the only Canadian level 1 trauma centre in a health ... medical record data for trauma patients recorded in the BC Trauma Registry who presented to our emergency department ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC September 2022
BC Cancer is a provincial, publicly funded, population-based ... Services Authority. It serves 5.1 million residents of BC and Yukon through six regional multidisciplinary, ... health record system in the BC Cancer – Vancouver centre have put additional pressures on staff. Physician ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Braedon Aujla, BSc September 2022
... of collisions.[ 3-6 ] It is estimated that in Northern BC, 55% to 65% of both deer–vehicle collisions and ... of wildlife species are hit and killed by vehicles on BC roads, but the most common large mammals involved are ... there are fewer collisions with moose, their size and high centre of gravity make them particularly dangerous in a ...
Obituaries / BY: David M. Lawson, PhD, RPsych September 2022
... clinical support for much of the early research of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Her name appears as a ... of the then-BCMA, served on the Editorial Board of the BC Medical Journal (1994–2011), and was an examiner for the ...