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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP May 2010
... knowledge of CPR and its effectiveness and outcomes.[ 5 ]  A qualitative study of patients and decision-makers ... his or her current condition and that there is less than 5% chance of that happening. Phy­sicians also need to make ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB May 2010
... recruited to service these newly insured patients.  With 5 million Canadians already lacking access to a family doctor ...
News May 2010
... are scheduled 12 months apart for approximately 1.5 hours each. The Caregiver Study requires no extra work from ...
News May 2010
... 2 consecutive days off per week and work no more than 5 consecutive days without time off.  • Reduce work ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Douglas Cochrane MD, FRCSC, June 2010
... findings[ 3 ] to surgical care in BC, and assuming a 7.5% adverse event rate, 8995 surgical inpatient cases with at ... while providing a framework for valuation.[ 5 ]  The use of a checklist in a team setting facilitates ... sites—and the in-hospital rate of death dropped from 1.5% to 0.8%. Surgical site infections and mortality rates also ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marc W. Deyell, MD, FRCPC, June 2010
... presentation of cardiac disease in 15% of patients[ 5 ] and more than 50% of all such deaths occur out of ... survive the Second World War. Mirowski spent the following 5 years of the war in the Soviet Union, fleeing the advancing ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2010
... practice required for competence is not a certainty in a 5-year residency of 48-hour weeks. What we have seen with the ...
Letters / BY: John de Couto, MD, June 2010
... results are comments of “significance” with shifts of 5% to 8% (!) over previous survey (of this tiny sample).  In ... in disgust.  Ominously 21% expect to retire in less than 5 years, and another 29% in 11 to 15 years, and 25% feel ...
News June 2010
... a half-million new cases are identified. Among those, 97.5% do not have access to an appropriate diagnosis or ...
News June 2010
... helmet legislation as important as seatbelt legislation. 5 tips to give parents to protect their child’s head: 1. ... ride. Remember: You are your child’s best role model. 5.  Children under 10 should not ride on the road. They do ...