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Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... benefit from objective evaluation and self-criticisms.[ 5 ] Practice audit The design and outcome of a simple medical ... circumstances (again asthma) previously.  One patient (0.5% overall; 2.0% of patients who received an antibiotic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2012
... 1 ]  The lifetime risk of colorectal cancer is 5%, with an incidence of 15 to 20 per 100000 in persons 60 to ... varies in the recent world literature from 6% to 34%.[ 5-10 ] Emergency presentation has been associated with higher morbidity,[ 5 , 6 , 9 ] higher perioperative mortality,[ 6 , 8-10 ] a ...
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 in­crease in SGA prescriptions was seen for boys aged 13 to 18 years of age, followed by a similar 3.5-fold increase both for males aged 6 to 12 years and for ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... there were 395 road fatalities in BC. Of these, 152 (38.5%) were alcohol related.[ 2 ] The BC road fatality rate in ... with the safest roads (e.g., Netherlands—4.3).[ 5 , 6 ] Public policy decisions should be based on the best ... licence suspension law in Ontario was associated with a 14.5% reduction in the number of fatally injured drivers.[ 16 ] ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD March 2012
... length. In brief, the protocol involves starting T3 at 7.5 µg every 12 hours and increasing by 7.5 µg daily until temperature reaches 37 °C. Sometimes doses ... once these high doses are used, the dose is tapered by 7.5 µg every 2 days down to nothing, then the cycle restarted. ...
News March 2012
... incorporating data from several BCMA papers from the past 5 years, up-to-date statistics, and public polling results ...
News March 2012
... Committee will receive nominations until Thursday, 5 April. A letter of nomination including a current ...
News March 2012
... detailed in the journal PLoS Pathogens (published online 5 January 2012 at  www.plospathogens.org ), blocks the ...
News March 2012
... patient. Hours of operation are Monday to Friday, 8 a.m to 5 p.m. This is the second health care award win in the past 9 ...
News&Notes / BY: J.C.A. Morrant, MBBS, DObst, RCOG, DPM, FRCPC, March 2012
... and his colleagues synthesized thousands of compounds over 5 years before they were successful. Gerhard Domagk ...