WorkSafeBC /
BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP
April 2005
... case, the patient was able to assist the carpenter for 4 to 6 weeks until he could return to full duties.” RTW ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Bruce B. Forster, MD, MSc, FRCPC
May 2005
... The preliminary results of the Inter-Heart Study [4] suggest that when additional risk factors such as ... proportional to the number of detectors (ranging from 4 to 64 detectors in currently available systems). Using ... which followed more than 5000 subjects for more than 4 years, a CAC score of over 100 predicted all ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Richard Eddy, MD
May 2005
... above the current BC legal driving limit of 0.08%. [4] Recent evidence suggests that the effects of fatigue ... decreased quality of sleep, with shorter deep stage 3 and 4 levels, makes it much more difficult to repay a sleep debt. ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP
May 2005
... Mean ± SD P value Self-rated health 910 2.8 ± 1.0 4.3 ± 5.2 <0.001 Self-rated stress 926 4.5 ± 1.5 4.3 ± 5.1 ≤0.001 Rating of health care received 937 3.5 ± ...
Editorials /
BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD
May 2005
In his editorial, “Forced retirement” (BCMJ 2005;47[4]:165), Dr Anthony Salvian decries the fact that the ...
Letters /
BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD
May 2005
... breeders is that conversion of feed to pig meat is about 4:1 and is significantly improved so that the extra cost of ...
Premise /
BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin)
June 2005
... outcomes than BC as a whole. Northerners live, on average, 4 years less than everyone else in BC. They have, for ... abuse or neglect are all higher than the BC average. [4] These conditions are related to the socially determined ...
News
June 2005
... Taylor. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2004. ISBN 1-55263-605-4. Hardcover, 112 pages. $49.95. Patients First is an ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Duncan Robertson, MD, FRCP, FRCPC
June 2005
... J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University on 4 April 2005. This meeting was a positive first step toward ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC
June 2005
... in the gay population was estimated at between 13.9 to 48.4 cases per 100 000. This rate was sufficiently high to ...