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Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS November 2009
... are reduced and length of stay in hospital is shorter.[ 2-4 ] Patient quality of life within the first postoperative ... were collected pro­spectively in a database over a 2-year period from July 2006 to June 2008. Demographic ... resection, 21 were treated laparoscopically over the 2-year study period. One case was converted to open surgery ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dan MacCarthy, MB, BCh, BAO, November 2009
... time off. Chronic Disease Management Learning Module Table 2  presents the percentage of physicians who agreed with ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, November 2009
... the move her mental health began to decline, and within 2 years she relapsed into depression. It took a further ...
Letters / BY: George Kljajic, MD, November 2009
... eyes will be focused on this part of the globe for about 2 weeks. This will be a unique opportunity to see what ...
Letters / BY: Albert W. Chan, MD, FRCPC, November 2009
... for the results of the clinical trials, such as CREST,[ 2 ] to provide us information about how they compare with ...
News November 2009
... #115 – 1665 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6J 5A4 by 2 April 2010. 2010 CMA Special Awards Further information on ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD November 2009
... A person’s brain engages differently in this setting.[ 2 ] As well, cell phone conversations tend to artificially ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, December 2009
... of overall mortality when compared to non-AF patients.[ 2 ] AF is estimated to affect nearly 2.5 million Americans and 4.5 million Europeans.[ 3 - 4 ] ... the number of patients with AF is likely to increase 2.5-fold over the next 40 years, reflecting the growing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, December 2009
... for participation in routine screening mam­mography every 2 years is 70% of women aged 50 to 69. Current participation ... odds of a woman participating in screening mammography.[ 2-9 ]  To learn more about why not all patients comply, the ... while the response rate for rural practices was higher, 43.2%. Of the 1695 surveys with urban-rural information, 83.6% ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC December 2009
... response and enhances susceptibility to re-infection.[ 2 ] Up to 15% of annual incident chlamydia infections in BC ...