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News / BY: Mark Bigham, MD July/August 2006
... at interdicting potentially infectious WNV donations. [4] Fresh frozen plasma not stockpiled Based on previous ... Over this period, CBS received 427 reports of which 23 (5.4%) were donors. Three of the 23 donors had recently donated ... present with signs and symptoms of WNV infection within 4 weeks of receiving a blood product. Suspect cases of TT-WNV ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) July/August 2006
... the latest National Report Card on Antibiotic Resistance,4 distributed by the Canadian government last month (and, I ... by 25%…prescriptions have decreased by only 9%.”4 Moreover, there has been an “increase in the overall rate of antibiotic prescriptions…of almost 3%.” [4] We suggest that Dr Miles spend some of his well-earned ...
Letters / BY: Michael Dettman, MD, July/August 2006
... to this letter In JAW’s editorial  (BCMJ 2006;48[1]:4-6)  and G.F.O. Tyers’s letter  (BCMJ 2006;48[4]:163) , the only possibly factual information given was ...
Letters / BY: Jerilynn C. Prior, MD, FRCPC July/August 2006
... and are not reliably suppressed by exogenous estrogen [4,5]  and progesterone is significantly lower [4,6]  than in premenopausal women. Given the ...
Letters / BY: Richard Loomer, MD, July/August 2006
... the Northern Medical Program at UNBC  [BCMJ 2006;48(4):157-158] . I agree that UBC’s devolution of medical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2006
... transmission of HBV still occurs in 1% to 2% of infants; [4]  rates up to 6.5% have been reported for infants born to ... infants in BC, the universal immunization schedule is 2, 4, and 6 months. The minimum acceptable interval between the ... of the infants who were followed up are shown in  Table 4 ; 20 of the 46 infants followed (43%) had no identified HBV ...
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 ... = 2), moderate (score = 3), and severe disease (score = 4). A minimum score would be 6; that is, 1 (no disease) in ... someone could have a maximum score of 24; that is, 4 (severe disease) in each of the 6 morbidity categories (4 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Humer, MD, FRCSC, July/August 2006
... full-time or part-time thoracic surgeons left practice. [4] Thoracic surgery is primarily an oncology-focused ... and follow-up patients rated their satisfaction overall as 4.8 on a scale of 5 (see  Table 2 ). The high satisfaction ... more patients are being seen more frequently (see  Table 4 ). This was first noticed when the Kamloops outreach clinic ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP September 2006
... the premium for the minimum $1500/month coverage would be $4.20/month, while the premium for the maximum $5200/month ... October 2006 Coast Harbourside Hotel, Victoria 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Conference highlights • The Top Five Upper ...
News / BY: Robert Hulyk, MHA, ABC, September 2006
BCMA web site review—the numbers After a web site is 3 to 4 years old, it is customary to look at how well it caters to ... 2. News—Newsflash and news releases 3. Club MD 4. Negotiations Web site improvements members would like to ... BCMA (on any topic) 2. Club MD 3. Benefits-related item 4. E-News (monthly electronic newsletter) Ease or difficultly ...