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Clinical Articles / BY: Don D. Sin, MD, MPH, FRCPC, April 2008
... greater than 65 years increases the risk of complication 4.7-fold or by 370%). • Smoking history (e.g., smoking ... by 470%). • A history of COPD (this increases the risk 4.2-fold or by 320%). • Obesity (body mass index greater than 30 kg/m2 increases the risk 4.1-fold or by 310%). • A positive cough test (see  Table ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Frank Ervin, MD, FRCPC, April 2008
... weaning rate and a 92.5% survival to discharge.[ 4 ] Long-term survival for those weaned from IMV approximated ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nabil Al Lawati, MD, MRCP, April 2008
... admissions, and death among patients with COPD.[ 3 , 4 ] In Canada COPD was the seventh most common cause of ... COPD. Patients with mild to moderate disease have a 4% short-term mortality if admitted to hospital,[ 8 ] but ... an exacerbation severe enough to require hospitalization.[ 4 ]  A high FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in 1 second) is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stephan F. van Eeden, MD, PhD, FRCP, April 2008
... management of patients previously diagnosed with COPD.[ 4 ]  Full pulmonary function tests, usually only available ... COPD at all stages of severity, as summarized in  Table 4 .  In this approach, the family physician is the pivotal ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD May 2008
... normal human reactions to illness and injury.      4. Investigate and address social and workplace realities ...
News / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD May 2008
... and Therapeutics is the portable version of the 4 kilogram parent book The Pharmacological Basis of ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC May 2008
... Chinese herbal medicines,[ 3 ] and Ayurvedic medicines,[ 4 ] and others.[ 5 ] The author reported in a patient with ...
Back Page / BY: Conrad Moralis, MD, May 2008
... interested in talking to me. Checking the nurse’s notes 4 days after his admission, I saw that he was eating and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
... The Family Practice Oncology Net­work (FPON)[ 4 ] of the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) sought to understand the ... of BC family practitioners (confidence interval 95% +/- 4.97%).  Data from the survey were analyzed using integrated ... or 1990s, while 7% graduated in the 1950s or 1960s, and 4% in the year 2000 or later. This respondent group closely ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Borys Flak, MD, FRCPC, May 2008
... a 6-year follow-up period.  A more recent phone survey[ 4 ] of 1808 Alberta men and women between age 50 and 74 ... Mainland and a dose from a double-contrast barium enema of 4 to 8 mSv. A reasonable rule of thumb for considering ... 17 ] For example, CTC can identify renal cell carcinomas (4%), abdominal aortic aneurysms (5%), and lymphadenopathy ...