President's Comment /
BY: Bill Mackie, MD
October 2008
... plus the US election slated to run smack in the middle on 4 November, we will be terribly weary and glad to see the end ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Nathan A. Hoag, BSc,
October 2008
... with sensitivities of 72.1% for PSA and 53.2% for DRE.[ 4 ] Used in combination, PSA and DRE remain the best ... and physical examination has a sensitivity of 90.4%.[ 5 ] Prostate cancer screening has resulted in earlier ... from the completed questionnaires that were returned (51.4%) was used to finalize the questions and ensure they were ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC,
October 2008
... which is estimated to occur in up to 50% of patients.[ 4 , 5 ] Paravalvular extension of the infection, which is ... may lead to conduction abnormalities and heart block.[ 4 , 5 ] Embolic complications such as stroke, peripheral ... over time from 15% after 1 week of treatment to 1% after 4 weeks of treatment.[ 4 ] Classic findings such as Janeway ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Nupura Krishnadev, MD,
October 2008
... The largest weight increase occurred with clozapine (4.0 kg) and olanzapine (3.5 kg), while ziprasidone produced ... or more milliseconds is considered clinically significant.4 Other reports have also documented relatively greater QTc ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Peter Rothfels, MD
November 2008
... cohort or case control studies. • Level 4—Case series. • Level 5—Expert opinion. Here are ...
Premise /
BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC
November 2008
... per 1000 participants each year, over an average of almost 4 years of treatment.” The release went on to state that ... The ACCORD study has now published its results. [4] The article certainly confirms the earlier press release ... glycemic group had a median A1c at 1 year of 6.4% with a relative increase in overall mortality of 22% and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC
November 2008
... found that exposures greater than the range of 0.3 to 0.4 µT lead to a doubling risk of leukemia, with very little ... potential impacts in BC? Using current BC leukemia rates[ 4 ] and assuming similar proportions of the population live ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Anne R. Synnes, MDCM, FRCPC, MHSc,
November 2008
... infants have been rising steadily over the last 20 years,[ 4 ]-[ 6 ] the variation in survival rates at 23 to 25 ... from multidisciplinary standardized assessments at 4, 8, and 18 months corrected age and 3 and 41/2 years of ... care treatment at the threshold of viability (see Table 4 ). The majority would either strongly advocate ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD,
November 2008
... authority at the threshold of viability.[ 3 ],[ 4 ] In a recent study, researchers reported that a ... die, and which will have disabilities and which will not.[ 4 ] Given the lack of uniformity in decision making and the ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Peter Rothfels, MD
December 2008
... (68D80)—for completion and return to WorkSafeBC within 4 weeks. Payment for the completion and timely return of the ... Opioid/Narcotic Agreement to be signed and returned within 4 weeks if ongoing medication is required. This agreement is ... you. If WorkSafeBC has not received the completed forms 4 weeks after they are sent to you and your ...