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Clinical Articles / BY: A.J. Pollard MBBS, MRCPCH, PhD, DIC January/February 2001
... to available contacts and by informing the medical health officer from the local public health unit, who will arrange contact tracing. Diagnosis of ... for planning appropriate clinical management and public health measures ( Figure 3 ). Several methods for laboratory ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn L. Malone, MD, FRCPC January/February 2001
... of influenza A throughout nursing homes.[ 3,4 ] Providence Health Care (PHC) includes seven long-term care facilities in ... the Senior Leadership Team, Pharmacy, Occupational Health and Safety, Communications, and the director of ... Communicable Disease Control from the Vancouver/Richmond Health Board. The process for responding to influenza ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2001
... near horizon are contract negotiations with most of BC’s health-care unions, and I suppose the last thing the NDP ... to get the message: if they want to have peace in the health-care business there is only one thing that will ... a lot in order to broker a happy, lasting peace with health-care professionals and, one hopes, create a renewed ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG January/February 2001
The cutbacks in health-care funding have not only affected the medical ...
Letters / BY: Dawn Graham January/February 2001
... to allow greater monitoring and accountability within the health system. I can only hope that his vision of a more ... & Co., for example, we have supported a number of patient health management projects looking at heart disease, asthma, ... projects are beginning to show that clear economic and health benefits can be achieved through an integrated ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD January/February 2001
... patients at the assisted conception unit of the National Health Service’s North Hampshire Hospital and 29 were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Charles Brasfield, MD, PhD, FRCPC March 2001
... syndrome , but there is no formal agreement, even among health-care personnel dealing with the survivors of the ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2001
... much for the "we’re going to include all stakeholders in health decision making" and "we see the value of the opinions of frontline health-care workers in health-care planning" rhetoric of the current government. ...
Letters / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP March 2001
... second and third year, and work actively to enhance the health of British Columbians through activities like the ...
Letters / BY: Michael Alms, MB March 2001
... One often hears the claim that in Canada we enjoy the best health-care system in the world. In the same way, one sometimes hears the British National Health Service criticized as an efficient but impersonal and ... in teaching hospitals in Saskatoon where our present health-care system was introduced, I felt that we had ...