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Obituaries / BY: Young Family June 2022
... fight in World War II, 14-year-old Archie rose each day at 5:30 a.m. to deliver milk and then rushed off to University ... year he began medical school at McGill University after a 5-day bus ride from Vancouver to Montreal. He interned at ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2022
... pithy plans are. How a tiny particle that didn’t exist 5 years ago can upend the world economy, our work, our ...
News June 2022
... BC doctors. We conduct these surveys approximately every 5 years to explore new ideas and ensure the journal is ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: BCCDC Overdose Drivers Knowledge Translation Group June 2022
... with intergenerational income immobility and deprivation.[ 5 ] Indigenous populations have used their collective ...
Editorials / BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCP, FACP, MRCP June 2022
... 192 cases of acute infection (corresponding to a rate of 0.5 per 100 000 population), 4086 cases of chronic infection ... 100 000), Yukon (12.6 per 100 000), and Ontario (12.5 per 100 000).[ 5-9 ] The third article focuses on Lyme disease, particularly ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maggie Wong, PharmD, ACPR June 2022
... community-acquired pneumonia guidelines recommended that 5 days of treatment may be adequate in patients who are ... standard therapy and can be recommended for use. At day 5, hospitalized patients were randomly assigned to an ... at day 10 and day 30. Median duration of therapy was 5 days in the intervention group versus 10 days in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick H.P. Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... age leads to the highest rates of chronic infection.[ 5 , 6 ] Other modalities of HBV transmission include ... chronic infection, but this risk decreases to less than 5% in patients who are exposed to HBV as an adult. In the ... mg/24 h, moderate dipstick proteinuria, low phosphate < 2.5 mg/dl, or dialysis patients).[ 20 ] Pegylated interferon ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... of ticks in Canada, and particularly emphasized BC ticks.[ 5 ] Recently, Morshed and colleagues collated 17 years of ... We added 2019 data and found a similar trend [ Figure 5 ]. The Lyme disease case number in BC is much lower than ... the bite, spreads slowly over days to weeks, is more than 5 cm in diameter—most typically 10 to 16 cm—and often has ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haile Zapata-Dixon June 2022
... and enteric fever are among international travelers.[ 5 ] International travel is associated with at least 25% of ... influenza, measles, mumps, and meningococcal infections.[ 5 ] Multinational studies report 6% to 87% of travelers ... malaria (n = 89/1494, 6%), and enteric fever (n = 81/1494, 5%) [ Table 1 ]. The most common syndromic diagnoses were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John van Bockxmeer, MBBS July/August 2022
... success and strengthening a culture of patient safety.[ 5 , 6 ] This has been translated into practice in some ... across the Lower Mainland. Why huddle? Huddles are short 5- to 15-minute briefings designed to give staff ... success, and reinforcing common goals.[ 2 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 8 ] Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, my primary ...