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Editorials / BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCP, FACP, MRCP June 2022
... led to antibiotic resistance, which has created a global health emergency that kills at least 700 000 people per ... and colleagues). These data are used to alert public health and other relevant authorities during early signs of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maggie Wong, PharmD, ACPR June 2022
... massive pleural effusion, known immunosuppression, health care–associated pneumonia, or aspiration pneumonia ... group. The mean Acute Physiologic Assessment and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score was 10 (approximately 10% ... resistance is a looming threat to our society’s health. Physicians need simple strategies for antimicrobial ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick H.P. Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... HBsAg in children).[ 23 , 24 ] As of 2015, the World Health Organization reported that 185 (95% of all) countries ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... and Asia. The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) Public Health Laboratory also offered this standard two-tiered test ... the early 1990s to May 2021. Since June 2021, the Public Health Laboratory has adhered to a new algorithm recommended ... immunoassay [ Figure 6 ]. In addition, the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory uses western blots on suspected samples ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haile Zapata-Dixon June 2022
... acquired illness abroad in order to further inform public health infrastructure and enhance strategies that increase ... Board classifies this data collection protocol as public health surveillance. The seven Canadian GeoSentinel sites ... CanTravNet, which works in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada. The BC CanTravNet sites consist of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John van Bockxmeer, MBBS July/August 2022
... frontline and mid-level managers were part of an excellent health care management system. In 2017, 3412 huddles were ... ] This has been translated into practice in some community health centres across the Lower Mainland. Why huddle? Huddles ... to the outbreak of COVID-19, my primary care community health centre team began a project on developing updated, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Omair Arshad, MD July/August 2022
... ] However, emerging evidence is demonstrating detrimental health consequences related to e-cigarette use. This, coupled ... is necessary to better characterize the inhalational health risks of these compounds. Epidemiology E-cigarette use ... for this purpose in 2017,[ 2 ] and the UK National Health Service officially recommends e-cigarettes as a ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD July/August 2022
... and telecommunications technologies to facilitate health care services, with a common form being virtual care.[ ... restrictions, and technology infrastructure across health care platforms and facilities.[ 5 ] At the start of ... we aimed to identify patient perceptions of their health care experience via telemedicine versus an in-person ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB July/August 2022
... As family physicians, we regularly navigate the health care system on behalf of our patients. Every day, I ... private practice. They all work in the hospital or mental health units funded by the health authority. There are fewer general internal medicine ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2022
... policies that clash with the needs of patients and health workers without fear of reprisals from its de facto ... birth town of Liverpool. Tom Sackville had been a junior health minister under Margaret Thatcher. He revealed that the ... Judi Korbin had pointed out that 80% of all new health care jobs in BC were in middle management. During my ...