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Letters / BY: Rob Lehman, MD, CCFP, MClSc, FCFP(LM) June 2022
... of medicine. By the way, you also have to: Be available 24/7/365. Manage every patient issue that comes through your ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: BCCDC Overdose Drivers Knowledge Translation Group June 2022
... died by overdose in BC had a mental illness diagnosis.[ 7 ] Transitions to or from an abstinence-based context, such ...
Editorials / BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCP, FACP, MRCP June 2022
... Rates of chronic hepatitis B in British Columbia (21.7 per 100 000 population) were above the national average ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maggie Wong, PharmD, ACPR June 2022
... community-acquired pneumonia treatment ranged from 7 to 10 days;[ 2 ] however, new data suggest that shorter ... for established intra-abdominal infections is 4 to 7 days unless adequate source control is not achievable.[ 7 ] In clinical practice, however, many patients are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick H.P. Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... and transmission is not attributable to sharing utensils.[ 7 ] In BC, most chronic hepatitis B cases are among East and ... of all pregnant women are routinely screened, and that 0.7% to 1.2% screen positive for HBsAg.[ 13 ] Clinical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... (54°80’N, 127°20’ W) based on active surveillance.[ 7 , 8 ] The deer mouse ( Peromyscus maniculatus ), the major ... confirmed cases per 100 000 population ranged from 49.7 to 121.3 in 2019,[ 18 ] most people with such a rash will ... reaction or a localized cellulitis. For example, Figure 7 shows a rash resembling erythema migrans in a patient from ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haile Zapata-Dixon June 2022
... travelers to low-income and middle-income countries.[ 6 , 7 ] Boggild and colleagues described the diseases and ... 2011; however, British Columbians represented only 7.3% of the travelers analyzed.[ 8 ] In 2019, Canadians most ... 24%), malaria (n = 49/620, 8%), pneumonia (n = 45/620, 7%), enteric fever (n = 41/620, 7%), and dengue (n = 18/620, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John van Bockxmeer, MBBS July/August 2022
... success, and reinforcing common goals.[ 2 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 8 ] Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, my primary care ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Omair Arshad, MD July/August 2022
... Cig-a-likes look similar to combustible cigarettes.[ 7 ] In addition to nicotine, propylene glycol, and vegetable ... that past 30-day e-cigarette use among Canadian grade 7 to 12 students doubled (20% versus 10%) compared with the ... use among US high school students increased from 11.7% in 2017 to 27.5% in 2019,[ 13 , 14 ] which is the largest ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD July/August 2022
... 49.8% were telemedicine, 45.5% were in-person, and 4.7% were telemedicine followed by in-person assessment. Because only 20 individuals (4.7%) were asked to return for an in-person appointment ... implemented in specialty services ranging from cardiology[ 7 ] to psychiatry.[ 8 ] It has also been used in disaster ...