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Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Angela Hu, MD, FRCPC January/February 2025
... man (average $1 347 055) from 2018 to 2022.[ 4 ] Women with young children and those early in their career ... male rheumatologists earned less than $300 000 annually, 4.5% earned $301 000 to $400 000, 32.0% earned $401 000 ... was relatively equal between women and men [ Figure 4 ] . The overall number of hours female and male ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Marshall Cheng, MD, FRCPC January/February 2025
... increase in postoperative morbidity and mortality.[ 4 ] Many reviews and meta-analyses have demonstrated that ... mean for arthroplasty length of stay was 3.2 days [ Figure 4 ] . There was a special cause variation shift to below our ... The baseline mean readmission rate for arthroplasties was 4.2% [ Figure 6 ] . There was a special cause shift to below ...
Clinical Articles, Clinical Case Reports / BY: Denise Werry, PharmD, ACPR January/February 2025
... peritonitis,[ 3 ] lumbar spondylodiscitis/osteomyelitis,[ 4-6 ] axillary lymphadenitis,[ 7 ] bacteremia,[ 8 ] and ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2025
... oral medication, (3) the patient is clinically stable, (4) there is no source control problem, and (5) there is no psychosocial reason to prefer IV therapy.[ 4,5 ] By encouraging clinicians to follow the same criteria, ... The median and average durations of oral therapy were 4 and 6 days, respectively. Total durations of therapy were 7 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ali Okhowat, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2025
... driven by an immune response to an inhaled antigen.[ 4 ] In sooty bark disease, these antigens are C. corticale ... rare, with an annual incidence of one to two per 100 000.[ 4 ] Sooty bark disease is even more rare—we found five ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Alex Kilpatrick, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2025
... have seven times the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.[ 4 ] Given that approximately 20% of women will have one or ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2025
... takes 66 days to solidify a new behavior into a habit.[ 3,4 ] SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, ... better habits is not an all-or-nothing process.”[ 4 ] Progress comes from small, consistent actions. Focus on ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC January/February 2025
... technology companies, parents, and youth themselves.[ 4 ] In BC, the provincial government passed a law restricting ... media, including feelings of acceptance and connection.[ 4 ] Potentially isolated young people can find others who ...
Obituaries / BY: Gurdeep Parhar, MD January/February 2025
... at Telus as its medical officer and remained there for 4 years. When he left Telus, he went back into family ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD March 2025
... is associated with significant side effect profiles.[ 1-4 ] The prevalence of long-term opioid therapy has been reported to be 5.4% in the United States and 17.6% in Canada.[ 5,6 ] Within ... were conducted using R statistical software, version 4.0.3.[ 31 ] Results Study population From January 2013 to ...