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Clinical Articles / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD January/February 2008
... Bilirubin levels were normal on two occasions at 4 and 9 µmol/L (reference range 3 to 17 µmol/L). Urinalysis ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Neal Shahidi, January/February 2008
... group (x2 = 0.3; P = .57), and a decrease in the 5 to 9 years group (x2 = 3.6;  P  = .06).  Between 2002 and ... while the rate for 1-year-olds fell from 134.7 to 14.9 cases (x2 = 68.5  P  < .0001), and the rate for ... were also nonsignificant decreases among 3-year-olds (27.9 to 14.3 cases), 4-year-olds (22.7 to 16.9 cases), and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2008
... end-of-lifwe care with their phy­sicians, but only 9% said they had actually done that.[ 1 ]  A 2001 study of ...
Letters / BY: Doug McGhee, MD January/February 2008
... ink. Please follow your further advice ( BCMJ , 2007;49[9]:501): align the  BCMJ  with the current epoch in ... online (I admit it, I love reading your paper version). 9. Revise your  BCMJ  mission statement to include ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pat G. Camp, MSc, PT, March 2008
... and/or emphysema in British Columbia is 4.7% for men and 5.9% for women aged 40 years or older.  These estimates are ... to hospital with an average length of stay of 13.2 days.[ 9 ] Using the estimate of 73747 British Columbians with ... per year. Perhaps an even more alarming statistic is that 9% of those BC COPD patients discharged from hospital after ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Don D. Sin, MD, MPH, FRCPC, March 2008
... who has had very severe COPD for 13 years has an FEV1 of 0.9 L (30% of predicted). He is on a number of medications, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2008
... • Age 1 to 3: 1000 mg • Age 4 to 8: 1200 mg • Age 9 to 50: 1500 mg • Age 51 to 70: 1300 mg • Age 71 and ...
ICBC / BY: Glenyth Nasvadi, MA, March 2008
... more likely to give their driving skills a high rating.[ 9 ] Most physicians rely on the Mini Mental State Exam ...
Letters / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2008
... pedometer users increased their physical activity by 26.9% over baseline. An important predictor of this was having a ...
Premise / BY: Benedikt Fischer, PhD, April 2008
... order problems associated with street drug use.[ 1 , 2 , 9 , 10 ]  As such, SCS represent a valuable piece in the ...