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Clinical Articles / BY: J. Ellen Anderson, MD October 2002
... after a positive test (using a cut-off value of 5/9) becomes 94%. This is better than most of the routine ... tests we use daily in practice. If the score is 4/9 or less, then we need to consider other depressive ... and eating disorders). An abbreviated PHQ (the PHQ-9) for depression has been developed that reduces physician ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erin E. Michalak, PhD October 2002
... and 12% of these will not recover within 5 years. [9]  Overall, it has been estimated that 30% to 35% of all ...
Letters / BY: Michael Livingston, MD October 2002
... whiplash injury might enjoy reading the work of Malleson [9]  and Livingston, [10]  available in our excellent BC ...
Letters / BY: Allan C.P. Lam, MD October 2002
... in the  Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain  Volume 9, November 2, 2001. In this study, 79% of the patients ...
Clinical Articles / BY: E. Jane Garland, MD, FRCPC November 2002
... isolated men who are in physical pain and are drinking. [9] Grief is a common experience among the elderly as the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Agnes To, MD November 2002
... risk are included in another article in this series. [9]  Other risk factors for suicide include demographic ... are discussed in a previous article in this series. [9] Conclusions The acute treatment of depression is an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Agnes To, MD November 2002
... with a depressive episode will have recurrent episodes. [9]  Hence, once patients are in full remission from MDD, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marcos Gobrial, MD, CCFP December 2002
... physical and psychosocial—than non-native people. [5,9-11]  Looking at mortality rates, for example, the infant ... death from diabetes is six times the Canadian average. [5,9,12-15] Diabetes mellitus type II is now a leading cause of ... insulin treatment improves glycemia for a long period (9 years) in normal weight and moderately obese patients who ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Chris Whittington, MB BS, MBA, FCFP, FACRRM December 2002
... very rare instances, occur on the same allele as C282Y. [9]  There is a third mutation resulting in a serine to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Peter L. Munk, MDCM, FRCPC, FSIR, FFRRCSI(Hon) December 2002
... braces, and analgesics (anti-inflammatory or opiate). [9]  For many patients this proves quite satisfactory and ...