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News September 2012
... by the BC Cancer Agency, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority. News Radiation therapy for ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD September 2012
... local and provincial governments, city councils, health authorities, patients, media, organizations such as ... implement a ban on cellphone use while driving), and other health care organizations such as the Cancer Agency, Diabetes Association, and the Mental Health Association.  Stakeholders play an important role as ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Ken Seethram, MD, FRCSC, FACOG September 2012
... (EOL) care, where he learned about the Ministry of Health’s support for advance care planning and about the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Simon W. Rabkin, MD, FRCPC, FACC October 2012
... the phenomena labeled clinical inertia, which occurs when health care providers do not initiate or intensify therapy ... of some antihypertensive agents may explain why some health care providers appear willing to accept small blood ... simple ways to uncover this problem. Collaborative health care models with a physician, home care nurse, and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Zena L. Simces, MA, October 2012
... Care Model (CCM),[ 20 ] which integrates population health promotion with the prevention and management of ... individuals cope with a disease and develop skills for health and wellness.  CCM also provides strategies in the community and in the health system to support self-management. An individual’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Simon W. Rabkin, MD, FRCPC, FACC October 2012
... resources that focus on research, knowledge transfer, and health care delivery. Regarding the last two areas, some of ... of hypertension in the context of improving overall health. •    Enhancing best approaches for health care delivery to prevent and control hypertension, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Janusz Kaczorowski, PhD, October 2012
... the risk of developing these problems. The recent Canadian Health Measures Survey estimated that one in five Canadian ... were estimated at US$370 billion—about 10% of the health care expenditures in developed countries.[ 6 ] In ... software installed. Another consideration is the time a health professional must spend to put the device on the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David Roth, MSc, October 2012
... then referred for post-landing surveillance with public health.[ 3 ] Post-landing surveillance is passive, and up to 50% of individuals fail to attend public health clinics after landing.[ 3 ] Loss to follow-up of ... may reveal subgroups on which to focus our limited public health resources.   The BCCDC, in collaboration with ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS October 2012
... and these are available in full text at no cost to all health professionals in BC through the licensing efforts of the library consortium Electronic Health Library of BC (EHLBC). The College of Physicians and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Karen Wanger, MDCM, FRCPC, FACEP, October 2012
The increasing expectation of excellence from our health care system extends to care provided by paramedics in ... care in the out-of-hospital setting. BC’s Emergency and Health Services Commission employs full- and part-time ... with hospitals, emergency departments, and the public health and emergency planning communities.  EMS physicians ...