Clinical Articles /
BY: Pratibha Reebye, MBBS, FRCPC,
May 2007
... factor for adverse social and emotional outcomes. [5] Parents who plan to adopt may approach physicians with ... to the Infant Psychiatry Clinic range in age from birth to 5 years. Patients are assessed for a the full range of ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP
May 2007
... full or part time. Most are family doctors with at least 5 years’ experience in the community, and many have ...
News /
BY: Fiona Youatt,
June 2007
... per patient. The current funding for prevention is only 5% of the new funds allocated to GP Services in the 2006 ...
Letters /
BY: Jeff Lynskey, MD,
June 2007
... overhead study show that the average GP’s overhead is 41.5%, while the average specialist’s is 36.4%. The range for ...
ICBC /
BY: Martin Ray, MD,
June 2007
... He was at a hospital emergency room where there was a 5-hour wait. Bob (not his real name) had been my patient ... morning. Bob had been in two previous MVAs in the past 5 years, each resulting in injury to his neck. With the first ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: H. Grant Stiver MD, FRCPC
June 2007
... a strategy to make this as efficient as possible. [5] The safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of influenza ... diseases. 4. Infants and children under 2 years of age. 5. Healthy adults and older children. While Canada is ... recent study, a lower dose (0.1 mL instead of the usual 0.5 mL) of trivalent inactivated vaccine injected intradermally ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: C. Mackie, MD, MHSc, CCFP
June 2007
... A, or (b) becomes epidemic or shows unusual features.” [5] Although influenza is not listed in Schedule A, pandemic ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC
June 2007
... nature (peaking abruptly over 2 to 3 weeks and lasting 5 to 10 weeks), their high community attack rates, and their ... became infected, with 25% suffering clinical illness.[ 5 , 12 ] Initially, the US population was affected in ... waves of the 1918–19 pandemic, the CF was less than 5% of all clinical cases; in 1968 the CF was 10-fold less ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC
June 2007
... may reduce overall incidence of respiratory illnesses. [5] But school closures during past pandemics of influenza ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Martin Petric, PhD, FCCM
June 2007
... to tenfold over that experienced in seasonal epidemics. [5,6] Only RT-PCR assays with semiautomated extraction ... small clusters (Phase 4) to larger communities (Phase 5). At this stage, the unique clinical features of the ...