Clinical Articles /
BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS
November 2005
... in people with moderate to severe AD (mean MMSE score 7.9, range 3 to 14, cognition measured by SIB). [8] Another ... also showed global improvement in the treatment group. [9] Information exists to suggest that the use of memantine ... for geriatric patients) in one trial of severe dementia, [9] there was no benefit (measured by the Neuropsychiatric ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Martha Lou Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC
November 2005
... (GDS) [8] • The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) [9] • Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease ... Employ behavioral management principles when appropriate. 9. Use psychotropic agents for specific syndromes. 10. Use ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: B. Lynn Beattie, MD, FRCPC
November 2005
... and Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders Association. [9] Death usually occurs after age 85. A few patients have ...
Editorials /
BY: Brian Day, MB
November 2005
... on physicians continues to fall and was estimated at 12.9% of total health expenditures in 2003, having declined ...
Letters /
BY: Ken Bassett, MD, PhD
December 2005
... coronary or total mortality either in individual trials [9-13] or in meta-analyses of all trials. [14] A total ...
Editorials /
BY: James A. Wilson, MD
December 2005
... challenge in a recent letter to the BCMJ [2005;47(9):475-476 ]), and almost certainly is going to exaggerate ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jerilynn C. Prior, MD, FRCPC
December 2005
... “menopausal transition,” [8] and “menopause.” [9] STRAW prefers the term menopausal transition, which ... (PEP) began as a pilot study in 2002 with 14 women and 9 health care providers from the Greater Victoria area. The ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ian Gardiner, MD
December 2005
... been detected by breast MRI in 2% to 10% of patients. [6-9] Fischer and colleagues [10] reported that in 336 ... unsuspected multifocal (same quadrant) foci in 8.9%, multicentric (different quadrant) foci in 7.1%, and ... (36%), ultrasound (33%), or physical examination alone (9%) in these patients. [18] There is no consensus on the best ...