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Clinical Articles / BY: H. Grant Stiver MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... in the M2 protein confer resistance to amantadine.[ 5 ] Amantadine is only effective against influenza A, not ... control—Changing standards of practice (J/F 2000) 5. Administer influenza antivirals to unvaccinated household ... reduced symptomatic influenza significantly, usually by 1.5 to 2 days.[ 11-14 ] In febrile patients, one study of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... influenza is yearly resident and staff vaccination.[ 5 ] Elderly, frail residents may experience waning immunity ... can emerge during treatment, it should be limited to 3 to 5 days (or up to 2 days after resolution) and patients being ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leila Srour, MD January/February 2000
... survey of long-term care facilities in 1991 found that 78.5% of residents were vaccinated with influenza vaccine and ... activity in health-care facilities and schools across BC.[ 5 ] All parties report to the BC Centre for Disease Control ... in institutions that reported no amantadine use (RR 5.95; CI 2.52<;RR<;14.02 and RR 1.50; CI 1.25<;RR<;1.79, ...
Editorials / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... six Canadians is infected with influenza, resulting in 1.5 million work days lost and 50,000 hospitalizations. More ... experts agree that we are due for another within the next 5 to 10 years. When six deaths occurred in Hong Kong in 1997 ... advance. Peak morbidity in North America is expected about 5 to 7 months following the emergence of the pandemic strain ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC March 2000
... are infected with influenza during the winter months[ 5 ] and those that are acutely ill seldom stay away from ... illness among the vaccinated, with an overall 0.5-day reduction in absenteeism per vaccinee.[ 15 ] Estimates ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alex Agranovich, MD, FRCPC April 2000
... of 4 to 6 weeks (20 to 30 sessions) of treatments given 5 days a week. Radiotherapy is delivered by a linear accelerator. A tumor control of 39% and a 37% 5-year survival were achieved at Princess Margaret Hospital.[ ... to anal canal With intracavity radiotherapy, a 74% 5-year survival was achieved for a select group of patients. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Iain G.M. Cleator, MB, CHB, FRCSC, FRCSE, FRCS, FACS April 2000
... screening results in reduction in mortality from CRC.[ 3-5 ] This reduction is due to detection of cancer at an ... for those fully compliant was 30%. Hardcastle et al.[ 5 ] have reported a mortality reduction of 15% using the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Greg Hislop, MD April 2000
... 2060 new cases (12.6% of all new cases) and 660 deaths (8.5% of all cancer-related deaths) were estimated for CRC in ... with significant gains in long-term survivors.[ 5 ]  These trends are seen throughout Canada, with an ... annual percent change for men and women in incidence of -0.5% and -1.4%, respectively, from 1986 to 1993, and in ...
Editorials / BY: G.I. McGregor, MD, FRCSC, FACS April 2000
... of the major predictors of outcome, and although overall 5-year survival is about 70%, it varies from 90% for Dukes’ ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David J. Klaassen, MD, FRCPC May 2000
... up the two patients who are salvaged from recurrence for 5 years? Only one of the purposes of follow-up is related to ... intense to routine or no follow-up have been published.[ 4,5,18-20 ] Two meta-analyses have been done.[ 6 , 21 ]  Table ... antigen (CEA) determinations had a 9% better 5-year survival. No other tests were found to be useful. The ...