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Clinical Articles / BY: Leila Srour, MD January/February 2000
... vaccine and only 1% with pneumococcal vaccine.[ 4 ] In BC, influenza vaccine is provided free of charge to people ... activity in health-care facilities and schools across BC.[ 5 ] All parties report to the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). In BC, health-care ...
Editorials / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... lost and 50,000 hospitalizations. More than 1200 people in BC die each year from pneumonia and influenza--a marker for ... this recommendation was inconsistently applied in BC.   Influenza demonstrates a remarkable ability to adapt ... Family Physicians, the BC Medical Association, and the BC Centre for Disease Control.   Its success is due to the ...
Editorials / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC March 2000
... awareness and encourage greater participation in the BC influenza immunization program overall. I would like to ... —Danuta Skowronski, MD, FRCPC, physician epidemiologist, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver Editorials Influenza: ...
Editorials / BY: G.I. McGregor, MD, FRCSC, FACS April 2000
... —G.I. McGregor , MD,FRCSC, FACS Chair, GI Tumor Group, BC Cancer Agency,Vancouver Centre     Editorials Part 1—Colorectal cancer: Current ...
Editorials / BY: G.I. McGregor, MD, FRCSC, FACS May 2000
... Systemic Therapy Subcommittee of the GI Tumor Group at the BC Cancer Agency, which meets to review policy on a regular ... care. This is an expensive, time-consuming process; the BC Cancer Agency has an obligation to assist physicians and ... FACS Chair, GI Tumor Group BC Cancer Agency Vancouver Centre Editorials Part 2—Colorectal cancer: Current ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (RPEP) quickly. In BC, the exposure of greatest concern is that associated with ... reservoir throughout Canada and are the only reservoir in BC. Contact with any wild animal, and particularly any animal ... for evidence of rabies. In addition, since May 1997, the Centre for Disease Control has advised that RPEP should be ...
Editorials / BY: Lorraine Gillespie, RN June 2000
... and rehabilitative services. Evaluations of several BC demonstration and pilot projects indicate that registered ... roles in primary health care. The Comox Valley Nursing Centre, developed to demonstrate registered nurses’ scope ... RN First Call, begun as a pilot project in 1996 in one BC hospital, has expanded to 10 hospitals. This program uses ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2000
... and have either a hospital or diagnostic-and-treatment centre. Communities lacking a hospital or diagnostic-and-treatment centre were omitted from the study. This was done to avoid ... evidence has pointed to a crisis in rural medicine in BC for years, but quantitative data have been scant—until ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Gregory Hislop, MDCM December 2000
... Columbia in recent years. As of 1996, 299 860 (8%) of the BC population identified themselves as Chinese.[ 1 ] A large ... rates than North American-born Chinese people. In BC, Chinese people have been found to have twice the cervical ... Canadian Medical Society), Dr M. Yu (Chinese Cultural Centre); other members of the research team: Dr C. Jackson, ...