Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
May 2010
... of patient/surrogate preference comparisons,[ 7 ] and it is also known that patient preferences change over ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
May 2010
... are based on a standard called HL7, or Health Level 7, an extensive international standard that defines how data ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Jennifer Leyen,
May 2010
... access to non-WorkSafeBC crisis counselors 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition to receiving crisis counseling, ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: D. Douglas Cochrane MD, FRCSC,
June 2010
... “huddle” with the patient in the room have taken only 7 minutes of the team’s time. The operation proceeds ... findings[ 3 ] to surgical care in BC, and assuming a 7.5% adverse event rate, 8995 surgical inpatient cases with ... reduces the occurrence of mistakes, slips, and lapses.[ 7 ] A checklist is typically a list of action items or ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Marc W. Deyell, MD, FRCPC,
June 2010
... of biomedical engineering and an animal laboratory.[ 7 ] At the Sinai, Mirowski joined with Morton Mower, a ...
News
June 2010
... Home Hospice Palliative Care physicians 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to assist physicians, nurses, and pharmacists ...
President's Comment /
BY: Brian Brodie, MD
June 2010
... the lights. 6. The Canada Food Guide applies to you too! 7. Exercise is non-negotiable for anyone trying to achieve ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC,
July/August 2010
... investigate ASA for the primary prevention of CV events.[ 7 ] Over 260000 American male physicians aged 40 to 84 were ... over the 3.6 years of follow-up (absolute risk increase 0.7%), mainly driven by an increase in GI bleeds. These five ... of effectiveness of ASA in women.[ 19 ] In 1992, 1.7 million invitations were sent to female health ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Megan Isaac-Renton, BSc,
July/August 2010
... when cultures are manipulated in a laboratory setting.[ 7 ] This bacterium is highly infectious, with fewer than 10 organisms required to cause infection.[ 7 ] Aerosolized bacteria may also come from environmental ... another option to diagnose F. tularensis. A blood sample (7 to 10 mL) should be collected in a serum separator tube ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Margot Davis, MD,
September 2010
... 6 ] the significance of solitary thyroid nodules,[ 7 ] and the epidemiology of gall bladder disease[ 8 ] and ... the same factors used in the women’s model, and found 16.7% of the study population were reclassified into higher or ...