Clinical Articles /
BY: Tasleem Rajan, MD,
January/February 2012
... of hyperkalemia in hospitalized patients is between 1% and 10%.[ 1-3 ] The majority of cases are due to medications, including ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Wei-Shuen King, MD, FRCPC,
January/February 2012
... or only weakly supported by the available literature.[ 1-4 ] Standardized use of albumin is necessary to ensure ... for each albumin order filled during the study period: 1 October to 1 December 2009. The form included fields for the hospital, ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Leslie A. Sadownik, MD, MEd, FRCSC,
January/February 2012
... prevalence of this condition range from 4% to 28%.[ 1-2 ] The majority of women with vulvodynia (90%) will seek ... resources (human and financial) mean the program operates 1 day per week and is limited to women with PVD only. The ... characteristics of participants are presented in Table 1 . Participants reported having pain during intercourse ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
January/February 2012
... attenuated monovalent human rotavirus vaccine Rotarix.[ 1 ] Benefits of this vaccine over the other approved product, ... rarely in Canada. It is estimated that in Canada between 1 in 62 and 1 in 312 children under 5 years old will require ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP
January/February 2012
... best to get all our school kids to be active every day for 1 month this year, from 10 April to 10 May. Doctors can then ...
Letters /
BY: Robert Obara, BSc, MPH,
January/February 2012
... to return to Canada for postgraduate medical training.[ 1 ] Unfortunately, in BC, only 24 of the upcoming match’s ...
Letters /
BY: Richard A. Bebb, MD, ABIM, FRCPC
January/February 2012
... on the part of the Hypogonadism in Men (HIM) study[ 1 ] authors invalidates the results. While I applaud academic ...
Letters /
BY: Matt Mayer, MSc,
January/February 2012
... of alcoholism. Health Canada’s Drug Product Database[ 1 ] shows no currently listed medications with disulfiram as ...
Letters /
BY: Ralph Jones, MD
January/February 2012
... therapy delivered by the Bristol Cancer Help Centre.[ 1 ] This trial was to be the evidence to publicly fund a ...
Letters /
BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2012
... all I knew)” —Rudyard Kipling The article by Dr Bebb[ 1 ] is based on a survey that, left unchallenged, may lead to ... relevance of any publication, we must ask six questions: 1. Who published it? 2. In what group of subjects was the ... would have been lower yet, estimated at approximately 1 in 20, not “Nearly half of men age 45…” As to ...