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Clinical Articles / BY: Martin Zelder, PhD June 2000
... to that province for a fiscal year be withheld.”[ 2 ] The cash contribution that may be withheld is the Canada ... growth in BC waiting time between 1992 and 1998 ( Table 2 ). Over that period, median waiting time between a GP’s ... referral and treatment by a specialist has risen from 11.2 to 15.2 weeks, a 36% increase. Between 1997 and 1998 alone, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Wong, MD June 2000
... physicians entering practice in all of Canada.[ 1,2 ] As a result, for years the province has relied on an ...
Editorials / BY: Lorraine Gillespie, RN June 2000
... across Canada have endorsed the World Health Organization[ 2 ] definition of primary health care as essential health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert T. Morrison, MD, FRCPC July/August 2000
... 1 standard deviation below this, and a T-score of –2.5 has been designated by WHO as representing osteoporosis.[ 2 ] Whether treatment should begin at this point, prior to ... neck. Only one patient (0.1%) who had a BMD T-score of –2.5 SD would have been missed had the SCORE index been used ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2000
... their time” in rural communities have not yet worked.[ 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 ] Review of the literature reveals that the ... Of these same 420 physicians, 302 were listed for 2 years in a row, 263 were listed for 3 years in a row, 225 ... retention rates equals the proportion that stayed 2, 3, 4, or more years. In this example, year 1 comparative ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J. Sedergreen, MBBS September 2000
... issues of the  BC Massage Practitioner  by Dressler[ 2,3 ] refer to the policy amendment and anticipate a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Shayesta Dhalla, MD September 2000
... in approximately 3 to 20 persons of every 100,000.[ 2 ] However, because of its potentially lethal nature, ... in January 1999 again revealed a carcinoid tumor ( Figure 2 ). He continues to experience symptoms of carcinoid ... to 80%.[ 1,9-11 ] In terms of biological behavior, only 2% of pulmonary carcinoids are associated with carcinoid ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Saw, MD, FRCPC October 2000
... cause of myocarditis in an immunocompetent person.[ 2 ] Only a minority of patients with acute viral myocarditis ... given was 1g/kg over 12 hours intravenously for 2 consecutive days. Average age at presentation was 41.2 years (range 31 to 54 years). Five of the six patients had ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Steve Adilman, MD November 2000
... and is the home for about 4700 injection drug users.[ 1,2 ] The epicentre of the drug trade is located 3 blocks from ... of HIV for all patients that attended VNHS was 9.2%. The prevalence of HIV for males was 9%, for females it ... clinic patients, females 34%, and transgenders 2% ( Figure 1 ). The patients ranged in age from 16 to 64 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP November 2000
... cited reasons why physicians leave rural practice.[ 2,4-8 ] Personal background, training, and professional ... to a physician’s decision to work in a given community.[ 2 , 9-11 ] We recently showed, using physician directory ...