Search

News / BY: Sara Gilbert, December 2012
... of medication errors occur at the interfaces of care.[ 2 ] Research has shown that approximately 50% of pa­tients ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Jannemé Frouws, MBChB, CCFP, December 2012
... to shave, fearing he may lose his job.  He has type 2 diabetes or at least IGT, his HDL is 0.81, his LDL is 4.8, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Craig Martin, MD, December 2012
... undertook a national lung cancer screening study.[ 2 ] It involved more than 53000 former smokers and current ... spiral CT screening at the start, and then annually for 2 years. The results indicated a 20% lower death rate among ... re­ceive a medical exam, including a chest X-ray, every 2 years. We hope more eligible workers will come forward for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2012
... to ensure access to timely high-quality care, 7.53.[ 2 ] Many recent articles predict a critical shortage of ... was significantly lower at 18.6 days P < .0001).  Figure 2  shows the mean number of OR days per FTE surgeon based on ... of OR days per month decreased from 5.6 days (95% CI, 5.2–5.9) in 1992 to 4.6 days (95% CI, 4.3–5.0) in 2012 (P = ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tasleem Rajan, MD, January/February 2012
... medicine residents. Cases of hyperkalemia occurring in a 2-week period before the guideline was distributed ... retrospectively and compared with cases occurring in two 2-week periods after the guideline was distributed ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD December 2012
... Technology Office EMR use in BC: The future is now (part 2) ...
  • No more results