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Clinical Articles / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC January/February 2003
... introduction to their book  Integrated Psychotherapy , [1]  they state “We believe, as does Kurt Lewin, that good ... I use the patient’s rating of his or her mood on a 1 to 10 point scale averaged over the preceding week. The  ... A model for an initial interview is summarized in  Table 1 . [6]  You can take a family history on subsequent visits, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc January/February 2003
... those resulting in hospital admission, are preventable. [1,2]  Prevention can be achieved by careful drug ... )—and fax it to your local ADR centre at 1 866 678-6789 (toll free). Alternatively, use e-mail ( adr@dpic.bc.ca ) or the toll free telephone number (1 866 234-2345). It is not necessary to report all reactions. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2003
... care needs of different ethno-cultural groups. Reitz [1]  concluded that “recent immigrant groups experience low ... 7.5% in 1990 to 9% in 1993 and 12.3% in 1999. [4]  Reitz [1]  advocated improvements in the awareness of service ... of the patients in this study is provided in  Table 1  and the cultural characteristics of the patients are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terry Curran, MD, FRCP March 2003
... manifest as delayed retirement and longer work hours.  1. Diworsification Diworsification  is a term that was ... that tried to expand by acquiring and acquiring. [1]  The end result was loss of focus and poor productivity. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Martin Petric, PhD, FCCM March 2003
... sensitivity (100 viruses per gram for RT-PCR compared to 1 000 000 for EM). Moreover, by analyzing the sequence of the ... has now been documented to be 7 to 14 days compared to 1 to 3 days based on EM methodology, although it remains ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2003
... will be fired. I submit the following proposal: 1. Patients awaiting elective consultation with a specialist ... be urgent shall receive investigation and treatment within 1 week of being referred to the institution. 4. Patients with ... will receive all investigations and treatments within 1 month of referral. 5. Patients with non-urgent or chronic ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2003
... at the BCMA’s Centenary Congress in Victoria on 1 July 2000. Dr Marcia Angell professed to be a long-time ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Taddei, PharmD March 2003
... the incidence of intestinal bleeding and perforation was 1% with naproxen (an older, cheaper generic drug) and 0.4% ... serious cardiovascular clotting of 0.7% with naproxen and 1.7% with rofecoxib, an incidence of serious adverse effects ... and 9.3% with rofecoxib, and a heart attack rate of 0.1% with naproxen and 0.4% with rofecoxib. There was no ...
Letters / BY: George E. Price, MD March 2003
In his essay on “ Learning and Teaching Medicine ” [1]  Dr Sutter succinctly presented guidelines for learning ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD March 2003
... without diabetes who has already had a documented MI. [1]  Up to 80% of people with diabetes will die from a ... as the pharmacological treatment of type 2 diabetes.” [1] According to Berger, physicians providing insulin to ...