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Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC April 2004
... sexual assault, forensic evidence was recovered in only 24.9% of cases. [2]  Over 90% of children with positive ... the child’s body were positive for sperm/semen after 9 hours. Evidence should be collected from the anus or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joan Fujiwara, MD April 2004
... completely without changes indicative of sexual assault. [9-11] Complete and careful examination of the hymen in the ... of injury, permitting penile penetration without tearing. [9,13]  Partial tears of the hymen may appear as clefts or ... test in 2 weeks and follow-up STD tests if necessary. [9] At the conclusion of the examination, the findings should ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nita Jain, MD, FRCPC April 2004
... transmission among children younger than 3 years of age. [9]  Perinatal vertical transmission is well documented and ... the appearance of visibly detectable genital warts. [5,9]  Autoinoculation and heteroinoculation can also occur. ... Most lesions resolve spontaneously within 6 to 9 months. An investigation for sexual abuse is only warranted ...
Letters / BY: John R. McLeod, MD April 2004
... program [see BCMJ  2003;45:391–394  and  2004; 46:7–9 ]. The main reason is the changes that have occurred across ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2004
... be moved to act on the betterment of its own health. [7-9]  If comprehensive health data were available at the ... and the potential years-of-life-lost index (PYLLI) of 1.9 for people living in the Bella Coola local health area are ... Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9), and then aggregated into the major diagnostic categories ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D.B. Clement, MD May 2004
... led to a variety of review articles and meta-analyses. [7-9]  The wide range in the quality of the research methods ... of 748 cases met these criteria (see the  Table ). [1,2,6,9-12]  Aspects of the studies analyzed include the ... At 52 weeks follow-up the ESWT group dropped from 6.9 points to 1.5 points compared with 7.0 to 4.4 points in the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Gina Ogilvie, MD, MSc, FCFP, DrPH May 2004
... planned to ensure widespread awareness in the community. [9,10] Clinical practice This shift in the epidemic creates ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martin Pusic, MD June 2004
... of blood from a patient. The result, a low potassium of 2.9 mmol/L, is entered into the laboratory information system. ... module (MLM) would extract the fact “potassium is 2.9” and search out rules applicable to this fact, one of ... to decrease inappropriate X-ray orders by as much as 47%. [9] Similar CPOE systems can be successful in a wide variety ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Bigham, MD June 2004
... [6-8]  Most WNV infections are not clinically recognized [9]  and infectious blood donors may therefore inadvertently ...
Clinical Articles June 2004
... Many medical reference, patient-tracking, and ICD-9 databases are available. Some databases can be found at  ...