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Letters / BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD, September 2007
... five meta-analyses substantiating its effectiveness.[ 1-5 ] In 2006, a British study looked at outcome scores of ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD September 2007
... years ago (gasp!), the C-section rate threatened to exceed 5%. Accordingly, a portion of every monthly hospital meeting ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) September 2007
... community has found homeopathy sorely lacking.[ 1-5 ] Open-minded observers will, for example, ask whether the ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2007
... I’m not sure what a family practice will look like in 5, 10, or 20 years, but in the meantime I’m heading next ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC September 2007
... every year for an average annual incidence rate of 6.5 cases per million in BC and 27.9 cases per million on ... period has been estimated as 6 weeks to 11 months.[ 4,5 ]  The majority of those infected resided on or traveled ... people have died of cryptococcosis (case fatality rate = 4.5%). Serum antigen detection, microscopy of respiratory or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Fok, MD, FRCPC September 2007
... an average of 65.4 hours per week, slept an average of 6.5 hours in the 24 hours preceding completion of the ... male trainees (44.8%).[ 15 ] Females worked an average 5 fewer hours per week than male residents, yet also reported ... and ear, nose, and throat), with an average 106.5 hours of work per week and 36.8 hours of sleep per week. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Russell Callaghan, PhD, September 2007
... remained relatively low and constant at 4% to 5%. [1]  In a study conducted in 2003, Lampinen and ... obtain such data in a Canadian setting, we conducted a 5-year medical chart review of all consecutive admissions (N ... therapy (CBT), family systems therapy, [5]  and narrative therapy. [6]  The primary therapeutic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mario McKenna, MSc, September 2007
... tested. Results IMG physicians were found to make up 29.5% (n=80) of the 271 psychiatrists with a UBC Department of ... was consistent with previously published research.[ 5 ],[ 6 ] In general, female faculty members were ... (n=82) of Canadian-educated female psychiatrists ( table 5 ). Both Canadian-educated and IMG female psychiatrists were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... amount, in reality this is equivalent to about 4.5 months of operational expenses. The general guideline for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Dufton, DC, MD, October 2007
... with comorbid depression. Egede and colleagues reported 4.5 times greater annual health care expenditures in diabetic ... with 1.7 visits per year for the depressed group versus 1.5 visits per year for the nondepressed group (P=.13). Our ...