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News / BY: Robert Hulyk, MHA, ABC, September 2006
... three reasons members visit the BCMA web site 1. Benefits 2. News and updates 3. Club MD Top four specific areas of the web site most used 1. Member benefits/Insurance 2. News—Newsflash and news releases 3. Club MD 4. ... site improvements members would like to see 1. None 34% 2. Log-in and password 14% 3. More links 6% Web site ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... medicine residency. Then we went to England while he did 2 years of research in genetics and I started school there. ...
Editorials / BY: Dr J. Mark Ansermino, FFA, MMed, MSc, FRCPC September 2006
... of these adverse events have been judged preventable. [2]  Every day, thousands of errors occur in the Canadian ... has been focused on errors that occur in hospitals, [2]  errors are by no means limited to hospital settings. ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) September 2006
... fluoride and there is much misinformation on the topic. [1,2]  For those of us in practice, answering patients’ ... condition. At the recommended water levels (0.7–1.2 ppm), at worst, it is a minimal cosmetic problem (white ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Margot Smythe, RN, BSN September 2006
... with the exception of two offices where excursions below +2°C occurred and resulted in wasted vaccine. Although only a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philip Hassen, MPH, FCC, HSE, September 2006
... patient safety initiatives. From this annual funding, $2 million has been allocated for the ongoing development of ... and known to reduce avoidable adverse events ( Table 2 ). Sixty-one health organizations are supporting the ... John Wright, Government of Saskatchewan, Regina, SK Table 2. Safer Healthcare Now! strategies. The Safer Healthcare ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dr J. Mark Ansermino, FFA, MMed, MSc, FRCPC September 2006
... and half of all fatal ones were not reported. [2]  To learn from our errors, we need to develop national ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce C. Carleton, PharmD, September 2006
... 100 000 to 218 000 lives in the United States annually. [2,3]  The direct medical costs of ADRs in the US are US$30 to $130 billion annually. [1,2,4]  These estimates are even more meaningful when compared ... of pediatric medication use—approximately 50% of about 2 million eligible children had been prescribed medications. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: G. Ross Baker, PhD, September 2006
... estimate adverse events in hospitals in New York State. [2,3]  Other researchers have since further developed and ... in Canada suggests that between 141 250 and 232 250 of the 2.5 million similar admissions in the year 2000 would have ... than threefold variation in the results—10.6% versus 3.2% for the Australia and US studies when known differences ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Ailve McNestry, MB, October 2006
... have some abnormalities on an MRI of the lumbar spine. [2-4] • If the patient does not have clinical signs of a ...