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Premise / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC May 2025
... increased to about 157 000 in 2022[ 6 ] (2936 in Canada),[ 7 ] with a 23% increase from 2009 to 2018, and short-term ... per 1000 population increased from 2.0 in 2000 to 2.7 by 2019, but the OECD average is 3.4, and Canada’s ratio ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM May 2025
... period of California encephalitis is usually 3 to 7 days. An early symptomatic phase lasting 1 to 4 days may ... consistent with CSG viruses: Serology* (preferred): Serum (7–10 mL): should be collected as an acute serum sample, ... illness and preferably during the febrile period): Serum (7–10 mL): preferred to be collected in an EDTA tube.  ...
Premise / BY: A. Wellar May 2025
... and expand R2R to all regional health authorities.[ 7 ] This will advance progress toward creating a provincial ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ashini Dissanayake, BSc May 2025
... culturally and linguistically accessible health care.[ 6,7 ] Studies suggest that community-based cancer screening ... received at least one Pap test previously. Of those, 17.7% had their previous Pap test within the recommended ...
Obituaries / BY: William Sanders, MD May 2025
... into the world their son Rowan and daughter Silken. After 7 years of full-service general practice work in Quesnel, he ...
Letters / BY: Rashmi Chadha, MBChB, MScCH, CCFP (AM), FASAM May 2025
... contribution to 4% of national greenhouse gas emissions[ 7 ] and pollution can complement and enhance providing ...
Original Research / BY: Amrish Joshi, MBBS, MSc Pal Med, LLM, CCFP (PC), FCFP, FRCPC June 2025
... sometimes overriding individual patient autonomy.[ 4,5,7 ] In the West, decision making happens through discussions ...
Original Research / BY: Emily Meagher, MPH June 2025
... in response to increasing wait times and patient volume.[ 7 ] Due to continued high demand, the current wait time for ... Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7)—assess the severity of depres­sion and anxiety, ...
Premise / BY: Catherine Joanne Binda, MD June 2025
... linked to better self-advocacy and social well-being.[ 7-9 ] A 2017 study asked over 54 000 children in 16 ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2025
... at a local emergency department.[ 4 ] He received a 7-day course of antibiotics for a minor ailment. As a ... duration: Choose a multiple of 5 (fingers of the hand) or 7 (days of the week). Is it an outpatient problem that is ... application of our multiples rule, this should be 5 or 7 days. Is it really mild, so much so that antibiotics ...