WorkSafeBC
January/February 2011
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Clinical Articles /
BY: Nathan W. Brunner, MD, FRCPC
March 2011
... to be approximately 2.9 cases per 100000 patient years.[ 1 ] Dissection occurs most commonly in patients aged 60 to ... layers: the intima, the media, and the adventitia ( Figure 1 ).[ 4 ] Classic aortic dissection occurs when a tear in the ... dissection found in the IRAD registry are shown in Table 1 . Staging Several different staging systems have been ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Keith M. Laycock, MB, ChB (Edin), MCFP, Dip Sport Med,
March 2011
... whether their patients are able to drive safely,[ 1 ] it has proved difficult to develop a screening tool for ... developed dementia. Estimates are that dementia risk is 1% under 65 years and then doubles for every 5 years of age, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
March 2011
... previous year, 2007 (range 0 to 5 cases per physician); 1,459 (92%) indicated they did not diagnose a case of LD in ... to evaluate physician behaviors related to LD. Scenario 1 presented a patient with EM and no laboratory testing; 58% ...
College Library /
BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS
March 2011
... Canadian guideline and US/European consensus statement.[ 1 ] Thus, access to Canada-specific information is ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Janet McElhaney, MD,
March 2011
... (persons aged 65 years and older) on any particular day.[ 1 ] Moreover, one-third of older persons admitted to acute ...
Editorials /
BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD
March 2011
... But perhaps we should revive the option of applying to a 1-year rotating internship match without prejudicing the ...
Letters /
BY: Kukuh Noertjojo, MD,
March 2011
... our article on chronic pain was simply searching (of level 1 or 2 evidence), appraising it, and summarizing it. As such, ...
Letters
March 2011
... for defining an appropriate competence criterion.[ 1 ] The MUARC study authors were interested in re-scoring ...
Letters /
BY: R.M. Preshaw, MD
March 2011
... fecal occult blood test in colorectal cancer screening,[ 1 ] but I take issue here with the implication that screening ...