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Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... Of 481 cases that we could evaluate, median age was 70; 42.7% were female and 57.3% were male. Four-year ... years, local recurrence rates were 0% for in situ cancer, 7% for stage 1, 16% for stage 2, and 27% for stage 3 ( Figure ... and the North Central Cancer Treatment Group, 1991, [6,7]  which showed that postoperative radiation and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... Dutch 2 year TME plus pre-op radiation Stage 1 (n = 134) 7% 0.5% Stage 2 (n = 107) 16% 1.0% Stage 3 (n = 100) 27% 4.3% ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J.H. van de Velde, MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCPS September 2003
... a cumulative risk of local recurrence at 5 years of 2.7% and overall corrected survival of 87.5% at 5 years. [7]  These excellent results were matched in Enker’s ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kathy McInnes, BSc(Pharm) September 2003
... that can increase serum digoxin levels include: [7] • amiodarone (increases levels by 70% to 100%) • some ... of the usual dose or give the normal dose every 48 hours. [7] BC Centre for Disease Control Digoxin: Does the dose fit ...
Editorials / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD September 2003
The sun has risen on the first day of the next 7 years: the time that Vancouver and the rest of Canada have ...
Letters / BY: A.J. Walter, MB September 2003
... Quarterly recommends that the records be retained for 7 years and the CMPA recommends that this period be extended ... for retention of records, making the total recommendation 7 years. Statutes of limitation vary from province to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John R. Graham, PhD October 2003
... [1,2] Schneeweiss and colleagues claim savings of $6.7 million in the first year of RDP for ACE inhibitors, ... claim savings for all three cardiovascular classes of $7.7 million in 1997. [4] Other research indicates that the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel W.L. Lai, PhD October 2003
... of more than 1 million. [1]  In British Columbia, 43.7% of visible minorities reported an ethnic origin of ... The population health approach proposed by Health Canada [7]  has identified 12 determinants of health: income and ... education would no longer be significant (24% versus 19.7%; χ2 = 1.72;  P  = .19), meaning that the differences in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brian McGowan, MD October 2003
... 24% with the hospitalist program in place. More recently, 7-day recidivism rates were compared and the hospitalist ... society, which increasingly operates on a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week basis. The main driver is the need for ... practise hospital-based medicine. Taking charge of the 24/7, 365-days-a-year hospitalist program seemed a perfect fit. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Gillian A. Willis, MPS October 2003
... only 17 (6%) patients with a median age of 43 years (range 7 days to 87 years). A 7-day-old preterm neonate received an iatrogenic overdose of ... ingestions, the median number of vials used was 7 (range 1 to 20 for acute and 1 to 22 for acute-on-chronic). ...