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Letters / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC October 2009
... the incubation period is generally estimated to be 1- to 4-days.[ 1 ] The 2009 swine-origin pandemic A/H1N1 (pH1N1) virus is ... are limited but nevertheless consistent with this typical 1- to 4-day range, with some series suggesting an upper limit ...
News October 2009
... in British Columbia. Only one award will be made in any 1 year and there shall be no obligation on the fund to make ... can be obtained from cma.ca/ index.cfm/ci_id/1368/ la_id/1.htm (select “About CMA” and “Awards from CMA”). ...
News October 2009
... Insurance BC, 604 683-7151 in the Lower Mainland and 1 800 663-7100 elsewhere in BC. The lab results delivery ...
News October 2009
... must be overseas to pass final exams. This results in a 1-year delay in these students continuing their residency.  ...
News / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP October 2009
... can lead to a gain of 3.4 kg (7.5 lbs.) of weight over 1 year if nothing else were to change. In view of these ...
Premise / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, October 2009
... decisions about the care of individual patients.”[ 1 ] The modern history of clinical trials began in the 1940s, ... to perish from scurvy.[ 3 ] In 1747 Dr James Lind ( Figure 1 ), a naval surgeon on board HMS Salisbury, carried out an ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD October 2009
... office staff as well as their patients. You and your staff 1. Get vaccinated! It is more important than in previous ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Craig Martin, MD, October 2009
Nonspecific low back pain (LBP) is a common,[ 1,2 ] costly,[ 3-5 ] and debilitating condition, and to date, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS November 2009
... colon resections for both benign and malignant disease.[ 1-3 ] Postoperative complications are reduced and length of ... one or more of the exclusion criteria listed in  Table 1 . Nurses in the pre-admission clinic, recovery room, and ... BMI was 28 (range 20–45), mean ASA class was 2 (range 1–3), and 60% of the patients were male. Seventeen patients ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dan MacCarthy, MB, BCh, BAO, November 2009
... and impact bc.ca. Advanced Access Learning Module Table 1  presents findings related to the impact of the Advanced ... went from 5.5 days before attending the learning module to 1.4 days after attending the learning module.  Overall, 49% ...