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Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2010
... tolerated and had fewer gastrointestinal side effects.[ 2 ] In 1899, acetylsalicylic acid was released on the market ... a case series of 400 patients prescribed ASA.5 After 2 years of follow-up, none of these patients had experienced ... an accepted surrogate for vascular disease.  After 8.2 years of follow-up there was no difference in the composite ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Megan Isaac-Renton, BSc, July/August 2010
... in Bri­tish Columbia and other parts of Canada.[ 1 , 2 ] There are various clinical presentations, and diagnosis ... Authority and the Northern Health Authority ( Figure 2 ).  Of interest, half of these cases were known to be ... for 75% to 85% of all cases reported from 1940 to 1983.[ 2 ] The disease begins as a febrile illness and is ultimately ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, July/August 2010
... even high-priority patients would sometimes be on hold for 2 months before a first consultation.  By introducing ...
News July/August 2010
... of British Columbia researchers has found that fewer than 2% of cesarean births in BC were a result of maternal ... in BC between 2004 and 2007 and found an average of 21.2 per 100 deliveries were first-time C-sections, and 14.2 per 100 deliveries were assisted vaginal deliveries ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, July/August 2010
Recent PITO articles[ 1 , 2 ] have focused on PITO’s emerging program to ex­pand ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: E. Lyle Gross, MD, July/August 2010
... CT scan include the following: • GCS less than 15 at 2 hours post­injury. • Cranial fracture—depressed or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margot Davis, MD, September 2010
... hypertension, and the presence of ECG criteria for LVH.[ 2 ]  In fact, it was this paper that introduced the term ... to assess disease risk for men ( Table 1  and  Table 2 ) and for women ( Table 3  and  Table 4 ).  The ... lower lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease (5.2% versus 68.9% in men and 8.2% versus 50.2% in women).  In ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erica Frank, MD, September 2010
... habits.[ 1 ] Methods Described previously in more detail,[ 2 ] a national study was conducted from November 2007 to May ... were less likely to be salaried or capitated.  Table 2  demonstrates that BC phy­sicians’ physical and mental ... female physicians and 9.6% of Canadian women) and 9.2% of BC male physicians (vs 11% of Canadian male physicians ...
College Library September 2010
... users can download books to their computer desktop for a 2-week loan period. NetLibrary is, for the College Library, a ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2010
... to Conquer Cancer as my fundraiser this year. This is a 2-day supported 250 km bicycle ride from Vancouver to ...