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Clinical Articles / BY: Dr J. Mark Ansermino, FFA, MMed, MSc, FRCPC September 2006
... error reduction is fundamentally an information problem. [7]  Failure to convey information about patients can ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce C. Carleton, PharmD, September 2006
... [6]  and cardiovascular diseases ($199 billion). [7] The safety of medication use is an international concern ... were classed as serious. The majority of reports (59.7%) originated from the manufacturers, 35.3% came from ... all serious and life-threatening adverse events, while 60.7% of institutions cited serious and life-threatening ADRs to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: G. Ross Baker, PhD, September 2006
... strategy, these findings yielded an adverse event rate of 7.5 per 100 hospital admissions (95% CI, 5.7−9.3). Physicians reviewing the medical records classified ... two US studies, including a study done in Utah/Colorado, [7]  as well as the earlier Harvard Medical Practice Study ...
News / BY: Fiona Youatt, October 2006
... be converted into a Parental Leave Program, for which $4.7 million has been budgeted. • Physician Health Plan ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Fawziah Marra, PharmD October 2006
... of tetracyclines has remained relatively stable over the 7-year study period (3.6 per 1000 children in 1996 to 3.7 per 1000 children in 2003) and 99% of tetracycline use was ... Quinolone consumption also increased over the 7-year study period from 0.59 to 0.84 prescriptions per 1000 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP October 2006
... day. [6]  In another study, Roquelaure and colleagues [7]  found 37% of viticulture workers had nocturnal hand ... of enamel commences at a pH of less than 5.7. Wines contain approximately 5 to 8 g/L of tartaric and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cristina M. Aydin, BSc, October 2006
... attain hemoglobin A1c levels within the normal range (≤7.0%). [7]  The Canadian Diabetes Association’s 2003 clinical ... of pioglitazone, whereby weight gain ranged from 0.5 to 3.7 kg. [28] When directly comparing therapy groups, our ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kevin W. Johns, BSc October 2006
... ascertaining the efficacy of other diagnostic tests. [6,7] Numerous studies have documented the correlation of ACR ... [10]  was based on patients with an average AER of 55.7±18.2 mg/24 hours and an ACR of 4.46±1.28 mg/mmol—values ... excretion was not within the lab’s reference range of 7.1 to 17.7 mmol/day. The ACR was then measured against the ...
Premise / BY: Michael F. Myers, MD, November 2006
... and seduced by endless e-mail, world news bites 24/7, the sports channel, and reality TV—we can take a lesson ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Fred Bass, MD, DSc November 2006
... For example, since cigarette smoking accounted for 7% of medical care use and costs in recent times [ 1,2]  and ...