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Letters / BY: Lynn Moran July/August 2005
... barriers also impede access to health care. In today’s British Columbia, where over one million people are ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2005
... mean and how will it affect doctors and their patients in British Columbia? I will attempt to answer these questions ...
Editorials / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD July/August 2005
... pivotal year for information technology in health care in British Columbia. At a national, provincial, and regional ...
Editorials / BY: Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC July/August 2005
... Currently, it is estimated that 145 000 people in British Columbia have some kidney impairment (defined as less ... kidney function. This issue focuses on key initiatives in British Columbia regarding chronic kidney disease, including ... thereby diagnose impaired kidney function more accurately. British Columbia has recently adopted this practice so that ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Basil Boulton, MD July/August 2005
... age group represents more than 25% of the population in British Columbia but receives less than 10% of the health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael D.D. McNeely, MD, FRCPC, FCACB July/August 2005
British Columbia is the first multilab jurisdiction in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: R. Kirk Poulos, MD July/August 2005
... or transplant). Presently, most renal programs in British Columbia have a CKD clinic staffed by a full ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gregory M.F. Ganz, MD, CM, FRCPC July/August 2005
... ongoing follow-up. With the current nephrology staffing in British Columbia, each nephrologist would have to see 10 new ... to cause serious morbidity and mortality to thousands of British Columbians. It may also result in millions of dollars ... our population suggests that between 140 000 and 200 000 British Columbians have chronic kidney disease—defined as a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lesley A. Stevens, MD, FRCPC July/August 2005
... to the majority of practices in the Lower Mainland area of British Columbia. There were no differences in demographics ... diabetes, hypertension, or cardiovascular disease in the British Columbia general population tested over a 24-month ... and reports of general practitioners’ practices in British Columbia, where 37% and 27%, respectively, checked ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2005
... approach of solving the problems of general practice in British Columbia, arguing that “rather than defending ... of medicine in BC and Canada. Here are some excerpts. “British Columbians have returned the Liberal Party for a ... care issues, and in its dealings with the physicians of British Columbia. “We will look to this new provincial ...