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Clinical Articles / BY: Hin Hin Ko, MD June 2006
... as an entitlement in an integrated health care system. [6,7]  Primary care for residents of rural areas is provided by ... regional field clinics to provide outpatient services. [4,7] In British Columbia, the Aboriginal population consists of ... a lower prevalence of HCV genotype 1a (42% vs 56.7%) and a higher prevalence of genotype 2a (7.8% vs 3.5%) and ...
News / BY: Mark Bigham, MD July/August 2006
... American Medical Association Press, 2005. ISBN 1-57947-628-7. Paperback, 356 pages. $70. A frustration in clinical ...
Letters / BY: Jerilynn C. Prior, MD, FRCPC July/August 2006
... decrease in free androgen levels in perimenopause. [7]  Perimenopausal women are not using the Daily ...
Letters / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd July/August 2006
... issue of the  BCMJ  (2006;48[2]:84-85) . Point number 7, regarding myocardial infarction, struck a chord with me as ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC July/August 2006
... and convalescent serum 10 to 14 days later. Serum (7 to 10 mL) should be collected in a pink- or gold-top tube ... with BCCDC lab requisition #1806. •  Acute plasma (7 to 10 mL) collected in a purple-top EDTA tube and submitted ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2006
... of infants born to mothers with HBV infection over a 7-year period found 2.3% were infected with HBV (oral ... high-risk infants who received HB vaccine when less than 7 days old. The integrated Public Health Information System ... in the cohort who had received the HB vaccine at less than 7 days of age were identified and the time of administration ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2006
... (Role/emotional) 6. Emotional well-being (Mental health) 7. Energy/fatigue (Vitality) 8. General health perceptions ... 8%), neuropathy (9% vs 10%), peripheral vascular disease (7% vs 7%), and nephropathy (6% vs 7%). Most of these complications ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Humer, MD, FRCSC, July/August 2006
... problem with other specialty outreach clinics in Canada. [7]  Beginning in 2003, telemedicine clinics began to replace ... your need for timely and appropriate consultation met? 4.7 4.8 2. Did this process save you travel time and money? 4.9 ... 13.6 Trail/Nelson May 2000 - Nov 2005 10 80 97 177 2.0 17.7 All sites -- 107 667 1368 2035 n/a 19.0   Table 4. ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... wouldn’t have been sustainable. We couldn’t do 24/7 coverage. It wasn’t an empty threat; the environment had ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) September 2006
... dose-related condition. At the recommended water levels (0.7–1.2 ppm), at worst, it is a minimal cosmetic problem ...