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Clinical Articles / BY: H. Grant Stiver MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... rates, even though this remains the mainstay of public health efforts to reduce influenza-related morbidity and ... (Relenza) and oseltamivir (Tamiflu). Zanamivir was granted Health Canada approval on 2 November 1999 and oseltamivir on ... mainstay of prevention, practising physicians and public health personnel can employ influenza antiviral agents in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... case fatality rates as high as 30%.[ 3 ] Infection among health-care workers during outbreaks is also common (20% to ... expected are affected with respiratory illness, the local health unit should be notified. Suspect outbreaks, when there ... ILI within a 7-day period, should be reported to the local health unit within 1 working day or sooner. Do not wait for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leila Srour, MD January/February 2000
... vaccine are determined around February by the World Health Organization. The 1997–98 influenza season was ... of vaccination and management of outbreaks in health-care facilities during the 1997–98 influenza season. ... network of sentinel physicians, acute-care hospitals, and health unit reports of influenza-like illness (ILI) activity ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gordean Bjornson, MBA March 2000
... and vaccination were developed for parents and their health-care providers. In September 1998 these packages were ... vaccination from either their family physician or local health region office. Uptake was assessed from parents’ ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC March 2000
... years of age and older, and certain persons with chronic health problems be vaccinated yearly against influenza.[ 1 ] ... developed countries, also recommends immunization for health-care workers.[ 1 , 2 ] A distinct recommendation to health-care workers has been made yearly by NACI since 1986, ...
Editorials / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC March 2000
... to others. In particular, this issue focuses on  health-care workers  and  children at high risk of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alex Agranovich, MD, FRCPC April 2000
... radiotherapy In 1990, the National Institute of Health Consensus Conference on Adjuvant Therapy of Large ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Baxter June 2000
... with expectations of continued increases in both health and life expectancy. A simple, dramatic indicator of ... expectations of not only maintaining, but of increasing, health and life expectancy. Externally, society will be ... An aging population means increasing per capita health costs. Average annual spending on health increases ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Hansen, MLA June 2000
... British sit-com Yes Minister showed the minister of health visiting a brand new hospital that has 350 ... worse. Where is the long-term strategy? At present, health authorities are not even told what their annual budget ... boasting about how much money they spend. What counts are health outcomes—not a government’s ability to aimlessly ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... genetic and growth factor techniques. The provision of health care will occur in the setting of more planned and ... be deployed in other major diseases. The complexity of health care, the need for comprehensive approaches from ... personal data may be encoded on a chip embedded in their health-care cards. Increasingly, other health professionals ...