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Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2012
... to 40 to 50 per 100000 in persons over 75 years.[ 2 ] Between 1986 and 2006 the percentage of the population ... exact test. Continuous variables were compared using the 2-tailed student t test or the Wil­coxon signed rank test ... patients had emergency surgery immediately. Table 2  summarizes the outcomes and pathology for both emergency ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Horn, BA, March 2012
... that this increase is not limited to adult patients.[ 2-5 ] In British Columbia be­tween 1996 and 2010, a 4.5-fold ... 1. Ensure the appropriate psychiatric diagnosis is made. 2. Consider target symptoms, ap­proved indications, and ... . 2. Consider symptoms, indications, and functional impairment ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Travis Hottes, MSc, March 2012
... to first-line treatments of cefi­xime and ceftriaxone.[ 2-4 ]  Notably, rising minimum inhibitory concentrations ... due to established tetracycline resistance in BC.[ 2 ] In order to aid the management of individual gonococcal ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... 976 people died in alcohol-related crashes in Canada.[ 2 ] Canada lags far behind comparable democracies in reducing ... in BC. Of these, 152 (38.5%) were alcohol related.[ 2 ] The BC road fatality rate in 2009 (8.1 per 100000 ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD March 2012
... high doses are used, the dose is tapered by 7.5 µg every 2 days down to nothing, then the cycle restarted. The cycles ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... health authorities, as well as those of the US FDA.[ 2 ] —H.C. George Wong, MD Vancouver   Letters Homeopathic ...
Letters / BY: Glenn A. Scheske, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... the month before his birth and his father was killed 2 weeks after his birth. This early experience in solo rural ...
Letters / BY: Devon Christie, MD, March 2012
... resident in 2009, and as a family physician guest at the 2-day Life Program in September 2010. InspireHealth’s ... medicine”[ 1 ] while 85% with advanced cancer use CAM.[ 2 ] InspireHealth endeav­ors to validate patients’ values ...
News March 2012
... immediately, he or she will return the call within 2 hours (the majority of calls are return­ed within 10 ...
Premise / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, March 2012
... roles in the manifestation of cardiovascular disease,[ 2 ] then I suspect that the clinical judgment that has been ...