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Clinical Articles / BY: D. Douglas Cochrane MD, FRCSC, June 2010
... complications account for a significant portion of our health burden.  During the 2007–2008 fiscal year, 119926 ... an additional 19 914 patient days available to address health system needs.  Despite public outcries and efforts to ... or wrong-site operations persist.  The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized the impact of unsafe ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marc W. Deyell, MD, FRCPC, June 2010
... little attention was being paid to the major public health problem of sudden cardiac death (SCD) outside the ... complex decision and involves careful discussion among the health care providers and the pa­tient.  The ultimate ... Summary Sudden cardiac death remains an im­portant public health problem today. Thanks to the pioneering work of Michel ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Tom Kosatsky, MD, MPH June 2010
... during the same period, the Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health authorities registered 455 deaths (from all causes and ... BCCDC’s National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health has information on personal heat protection geared to both clinicians and public health physicians ( www.ncceh.ca ). Two informative articles ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2010
... of nuisance. I’m talking about being a nuisance to my health authority. I have been suspicious for a while now that ... investigations then this would help their bottom line. The health authorities perfect fiscal dream world would be a ... could be staffed by virtual doctors, nurses, and other health professionals not requiring any salaries. There would ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Robert Young, MD, June 2010
... BC met with representatives from the BCMA, the Ministry of Health Services, and the province’s health authorities as well as with patients and their ... to increased benefits for patients and lower costs to the health care system.[ 1 ]  Since the challenge of attaching ...
News / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2010
... government has expressed a desire to bring them into the health profession fold. Where would PAs fit into the health care system in BC? A number of demonstration projects ... of too few doctors. —Lloyd Oppel, MD Chair, Council on Health Promotion News Assistants needed to treat doctor ...
News / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2010
... about estrogen and progesterone’s role in perimenopausal health, and that some practising physicians might reflexively ... negative evidence of estrogen’s ability to im­prove the health of normal perimeno­pausal women is clearly reported, ...
News June 2010
... the main victims of this long-standing neglect. The World Health Organization estimates that 1 million children each ...
News June 2010
... to hospital with an injury, but according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, traumatic brain injuries account for ... For every dollar spent on a helmet, $30 can be saved in health care costs, an important consideration for the ...
News / BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc June 2010
... Injury Prevention Coalition.  The guideline will assist health professionals in being proactive in the evaluation of ... Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC News New resource: Falls among elderly ...