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Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) July/August 2006
... by 25%…prescriptions have decreased by only 9%.”4 Moreover, there has been an “increase in the ...
Letters / BY: Jerilynn C. Prior, MD, FRCPC July/August 2006
... that get better in (untreated) menopausal women. [9] —Jerilynn C. Prior, MD, FRCPC Centre for Menstrual Cycle ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2006
... intake, leading to our physician supply crisis. At 1.9 doctors per 1000 population, we have the lowest physician ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2006
... 796 5 (0.6) Vancouver Island Health Authority 870 9 (1.0) Fraser Health Authority 978 23 (2.4) Interior Health Authority 1065 10 (0.9) Provincial total 4631 99 (2.1)   Table 3. Infants who ... given Infants immunized Infants tested Mother infected 16 9 Household contact/caregiver infected 6 3 Infant adopted ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2006
... symptomatic hyperglycemia, and hypoglycemia. [1-4,6,9-23]  All these things have been associated with lower ... (51% vs 46%:  P  = .44), and average age (60.2 vs 59.9 years:  P  = .87). The rates for diabetes complications ... 19%), retinopathy (15% vs 14%), cerebrovascular accidents (9% vs 8%), neuropathy (9% vs 10%), peripheral vascular ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Humer, MD, FRCSC, July/August 2006
... services (PACS or Picture Archive Communicating System), [9]  making all radiological imaging from sites available to ... (km2) Population density (persons per km2) Canada 32.10 9 970 610 3.2 BC 4.20 945 000 4.4 Interior Health Authority ... 420 19.1 Vancouver Island Health Authority 0.71 55 040 12.9 Northern Health Authority 0.30 604 842 0.5 Interior Health ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Margot Smythe, RN, BSN September 2006
... and required improvement on the part of the provider. [1-9]  Therefore, BCCDC funded a pilot project to develop, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philip Hassen, MPH, FCC, HSE, September 2006
... CPSI accountable for all its operations by: • Electing 9 of the 16 CPSI board directors. • Receiving an annual ... allocated to this initiative from $1.5 million to $1.9 million. CPSI also partnered with the Canadian Health ... and demonstration projects were selected to receive $2.9 million in funding. CPSI is currently leading and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce C. Carleton, PharmD, September 2006
... 16.6% of pediatric hospitalizations result in ADRs, and 27.9% of these reactions are severe. [17,18]  Each year, ... administration, increases approximately sevenfold (1.2 to 9.0 mL/min/kg) over the first 3 months of life. Carbamazepine ...
Clinical Articles / BY: G. Ross Baker, PhD, September 2006
... rate of 7.5 per 100 hospital admissions (95% CI, 5.7−9.3). Physicians reviewing the medical records classified 36.9% of the events as preventable (95% CI, 32.0%–41.8%). For ... events. In a recent French study, Michel and colleagues [9]  compared three methods for assessing care and identified ...