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Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Elizabeth Burden, MD January/February 2023
... 000 Canadians are currently living with the condition.[ 1 , 2 ] Through improvements in diagnostics and treatment of ... for patients with advanced stages of cardiac decline.[ 1 , 3 ] Heart failure mortality has long exceeded deaths from lung, breast, and prostate cancer combined and has a 1-year mortality rate of 23.4%. Further, up to 80% of heart ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Nicola Y. Edwards, MHA January/February 2023
... for individuals, communities, and the health care system.[ 1 ] Since British Columbia declared a provincial public ... Hospital) with an opioid overdose over a 12-month period (1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019). This period was chosen to ... Corporation, Redmond, WA) and Tableau version 12.1 (Tableau Software, LLC, Seattle, WA). Results Population ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2023
Dr Greggain started his 1-year term as president of Doctors of BC on 1 January 2023. He spoke with BCMJ editor Dr Caitlin Dunne in ... the primary care clinic in Anderson Creek, which is about 1 hour north of Hope, in the community of Boston Bar. And ...
Letters / BY: Richard S. Taylor, MB, BS, FRCPC January/February 2023
... ten minutes they had offered our child Lupron.’”[ 1 ] Was this an adequate psychosocial assessment? The parents ...
News January/February 2023
... physicians, for her article “Managing menopause part 1: Vasomotor symptoms.” A third-year student in UBC’s ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2023
... If you are anything like the majority of Canadians,[ 1 ] your commitment has already lapsed, but that doesn’t ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD January/February 2023
... to Indigenous-specific racism or any other matter.”[ 1 ] What is “speak-up” culture? How can it help us? How ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP January/February 2023
Since 2008, the triple aim framework[ 1 ] has supported health care improvement through the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Patrick Wong January/February 2023
... calling WorkSafeBC’s Health Care Programs department at 1 866 244-6404 and pressing “2” or by emailing ... please contact WorkSafeBC Payment Services promptly at 1 888 422-2228. If you are unsure whether you were paid the ... surgeon needs to call WorkSafeBC Health Care Programs at 1 866 244-6404 and press “2” or email ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rohit Vijh, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2023
... BC and around the globe at unprecedented rates in 2022.[ 1-3 ] BC has had the highest number of poultry premises affected in comparison to other provinces,[ 1 ] leading to significant impacts on the livelihoods and ...