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WorkSafeBC / BY: Nancy McLachlan, July/August 2012
... following changes apply to all decisions made on or after 1 July 2012. Mental disorders covered by WorkSafeBC Workers ... by contacting WorkSafeBC’s Teleclaim Contact Centre at 1 888 WORKERS (1 888 967-5377). New reporting requirements for psychiatrists ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sophia Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2012
... documented in multiple epidemiological studies.[ 1-3 ] In particular, the causal role of low density ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Forbes, MD, September 2012
... 000 umbilical herniorrhaphies are performed each year.[ 1 ] While research historically has focused on ways to ... colleagues found that when the surgeon recommended only 1 day off work, the med­ian absence from activity was 6 days ... to investigate the consequences of a surgeon-recommended 1-day convalescence on recurrence and return-to-work rates. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2012
... to 50% for series completion in women age 20 to 26 years.[ 1 ]  A recently published economic analysis using a Markov ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2012
... BCMJ Managing Editor Jay Draper spoke to Dr Ross in July, 1 month into her presidency. Here is a condensed version of ...
Letters / BY: David B. Miller, MD, FRCPC September 2012
... against adding dabigatran, prasugrel, and ticagrelor[ 1-3 ] to the formulary on the basis of “insufficient ... health benefit”[ 6 ] and “overall net benefit?”[ 1-3 ] I believe that it is because part of the role of the TI ...
Letters / BY: Mark F. Masterson, MD, MSc, FRCPC, September 2012
... distributed medical education (DME) in the last dec­ade.[ 1 , 2 ] In response, the Professional Association of ...
News / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD September 2012
By Victoria A. Harden. 2012. ISBN 978-1-59797-294-9. Hard­cover: 304 pages. $29.95. This book is ...
News September 2012
... waits for surgery cost Canadian patients a combined $1.08 billion in lost time and productivity in 2011, according ... . News Surgical wait lists cost over $1 billion in lost time ...
News&Notes / BY: Gerd A. Asche, MD September 2012
... Boaters arrived at the accident site in less than 1 minute, however, the aircraft had already sunk amid a small ...