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Editorials /
BY: Maziar Badii, MD, FRCPC, MHSc
May 2024
... to osteoarthritis care for Indigenous Peoples in rural BC, the challenges of assessing surgical risk in combination ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles /
BY: Adrian Marcuzzi, BHSc
May 2024
... However, wait times are a barrier for many patients. The BC Surgical Patient Registry estimates that as of 31 March ... that the two most commonly used risk assessment tools in BC—the Opioid Risk Tool and the Prescription Opioid Misuse ... but it can be inaccessible due to prolonged wait times in BC. An increasing number of patients awaiting total knee ...
News /
BY: Laura McLean
May 2024
... Members’ Products and Services, Doctors of BC News The attending physician’s statement – an ...
Obituaries
May 2024
... 2022 Obituary: www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/vernon-bc/william-cawkell-11030541 Dr Ralph Marenus Christensen 4 ... www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/courtenay-bc/gerald-philippson-11376189 Dr William Leo (Barry) Purcell ... www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/north-vancouver-bc/kennard-robertson-11642703 Dr Benjamin Arthur Sawer 18 ...
Letters /
BY: Michael Cooper, MD, FRCPC
May 2024
... diagnostic process. The guide is available on the Pathways BC website under Mental Health—Adult > Information ... I would like to thank Dr Tracy Monk and staff at Pathways BC for their assistance with my project. Pathways BC continues to expand and provides an exceptional resource ...
President's Comment /
BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC
May 2024
... prioritize patient access. But Canada—and specifically BC—lags behind many jurisdictions in areas such as hospital ... for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nation. BC has even less—a mere 1.95 hospital beds per 1000 people. ... these issues through significant investments. Doctors of BC continues to raise this concern. In the 2011 BC Medical ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Jae Ford, MD, MPH
May 2024
... clinicians about the ticks most commonly encountered in BC and the diseases they may transmit to humans. Ticks and tick-borne diseases in BC The prevalence of ticks and tick-borne diseases varies by geography.[ 2 ] In BC, Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes angustus ticks are ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Kate Smolina, DPhil, CHE
June 2024
... in significant costs to the health care system.[ 1 ] In BC, the number of people living with chronic disease is ... of people living with a condition) are sourced from the BC Chronic Disease Registries, which are derived from records ... 25 common chronic conditions, excluding cancer (see the BC Cancer Statistics Online Dashboard[ 3 ]). Population rates ...
Editorials /
BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC
June 2024
... causes of road crashes. This goal has been endorsed by BC’s Office of the Provincial Health Officer, which has ... governments has been promising: over 60 municipalities in BC have lowered speed limits from the standard 50 km/h to 30 ... carries an estimated cost of $492 million per year in BC;[ 1 ] the human cost of lives lost and altered cannot be ...