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Clinical Articles / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD January/February 2008
... identified, the Poison Control Centre notified the public health office to ensure that an environmental health hazard did not result from this man’s action. An ... by conference call led to the conclusion that there was no health risk. After the patient completed the  first course ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Neal Shahidi, January/February 2008
... passive surveillance system (the integrated Public Health Informa­tion System or iPHIS) and the provincial ... indigent urban dwellers during 2006. The hospital and health authority involved in identifying the outbreak will ... with Dr Mark Romney, medical microbiologist, Providence Health Care, 16 August 2007). This study had at least two ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2008
... syphilis in Alberta. CMAJ 2007;177:33-36. Public Health Agency of Canada. Canadian Guidelines on Sexually ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2008
... process be­tween the patient, his or her family, and health care providers to determine preferences for care should the patient become incapable of making health care decisions. In a 2004 Ipsos-Reid survey, 49% of ... MD Geriatrics and Palliative Care Committee Council on Health Promotion It's up to us to begin the conversation ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Dan McCarthy, MD January/February 2008
... The plan must reflect the patient’s values and expected health outcomes as well as outline linkages with other health care professionals involved in his or her care. The ... to the patient (or his or her representative) and to other health professionals involved in the care.  In view of the ...
Letters / BY: Doug McGhee, MD January/February 2008
... align the  BCMJ  with the current epoch in environmental health and make it the most Earth-friendly medical journal on ...
Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD January/February 2008
... of reducing the users’ impact on public order and public health until durable solutions are reached.” This is not health care, nor is it likely that it represents the goal of ...
Letters / BY: David C. Marsh, MD, January/February 2008
... goal of CAST. All the trials are designed with improved health of the participants as the primary outcome. At the ... funding streams such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and facilitating advocacy for those who do ...
Letters / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2008
... is to extract “anonymized ‘core-data’ for planning health care priorities”—in other words, to use physicians ...
Letters / BY: Michael Golbey, MD January/February 2008
... benefit from adopting an EMR accrues to  the Ministry of Health and our patients. The BCMA and the Ministry of Health were both anxious to accelerate the adoption of EMRs, ... set of data will be available for the ministry to help in health care planning. The Core Data Set must be generated ...