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Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... complication secondary to health care intervention.[ 1-3 ] According to a Canadian study published in 2004, 7.5% ... hospital, nearly two-thirds of which are not preventable.[ 1 ] We had several patient safety seminars during our ...
Letters / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD May 2024
... College Library (as of 15 March 2024) in an email sent on 1 March. I have reflected on the loss of this service since ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... decision, both privately and in the pages of the BCMJ .[ 1,2 ] There is minimal information about the closure on the ... library services (including salaries and benefits) was $1 863 000, or $126.54 per active registrant, based on 14 723 ... to the editor that Doctors of BC take over the Library.[ 1 ] I am curious to hear from more of our readers about what ...
Editorials / BY: Maziar Badii, MD, FRCPC, MHSc May 2024
... options, and emerging therapeutic strategies. Article 1 : Darabian and colleagues emphasize the importance of early ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: S. Darabian, BA May 2024
... age over 50 years is the most significant risk factor.[ 1 ] Other risk factors include female sex, obesity, and ... sleep disturbances, and even depression.[ 8 ] Table 1 summarizes symptoms of early, moderate, and advanced knee ... push fluid into the lateral suprapatellar recess [ Figure 1 ] . Then swiftly sweep your hand along the lateral knee and ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: A. Sidhu, MD May 2024
... age of 20 years have been diagnosed with osteoarthritis.[ 1 ] The economic burden of arthritis in Canada has been ... that 39% of the topical diclofenac group (consisting of 1.5% w/w diclofenac sodium) suffered from local skin dryness ... no difference in postoperative functional outcomes up to 1 year after surgery.[ 18 ] Despite these results, given the ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Adrian Marcuzzi, BHSc May 2024
... knee arthroplasty; 90% of surgeries performed between 1 January 2022 and 21 March 2022 had a wait time of 51.4 weeks.[ 1 ] These reports may underrepresent the crisis because they ... in pain relief[ 10 ] when opioids were used for more than 1 month. A narrative review of 35 studies on patients with ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Tyson A. Boettcher, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... the studies reported more than 80% patient satisfaction.[ 1 ] However, many factors must be considered and addressed ... as opposed to inflammatory arthritis, and female sex.[ 1 ] Keeping these factors in mind, in addition to chronic ... 1987 and 2004 indicated that morbid obesity did not affect 1-year outcomes based on Western Ontario and McMaster ...
Obituaries May 2024
... 24 May 1946–16 January 2024 Dr Thomas Paul Broome 1 June 1932–3 September 2023 Obituary: ... Dr U. Pal Gareau 30 November 1927–1 October 2023 Dr James Hyndman Gough 25 December 1921–27 ... 1968–16 May 2023 Dr Earl David Hardin 10 December 1933–1 November 2023 Obituary: ...
Letters / BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP May 2024
... we order are unnecessary and 10% of them are harmful.[ 1 ] Current approaches designed to address this issue ...