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Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP March 2013
... care facilities,[ 7 ] and up to one-third of deaths in BC occurring in facilities, many older adults are spending ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gary Mazowita, MD, March 2013
... and clinical reality Diabetes guidelines such as BC’s 2005 Diabetic Care, updated in 2010, and the Canadian ... to recommendations that target this population. The BC Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee (GPAC) serves ... All of this, thankfully, is consistent with the current BC health care landscape and GPAC process. Let us ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Marsha Taylor, MSc, March 2013
... labor, spontaneous abortion, or neonatal infection.  In BC, approximately 9% of infections between 2002 and 2012 were ... during pregnancy and the resources currently available in BC. Using their feedback, we developed resources consisting ... and help to decrease morbidity.  —Marsha Taylor, MSc BC Centre for Disease Control  —Meghan Kelly, MD, CCFP ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Graham A.A. Dodd, MSc, MD, CCFP(EM), MADEM March 2013
... months have seen a number of large earthquakes rock the BC coast. These seismic events should serve as a wake-up call ... earthquakes struck the more populous areas of the southern BC coast—where a significant quake has long been ... and hospitals for a major emergency or disaster in BC? Over the last 5 decades the number of global ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2013
... corporations expedite their care. Similar legislation in BC has been passed and awaits only proclamation to become ... sector is more cost effective than the public system. BC experience confirms this.  In a Newfoundland government ... the 60000 patients a year treated at private clinics in BC. WorkSafeBC has saved hundreds of millions of dollars ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, March 2013
... Practice Support Program (PSP), a joint initiative of the BC Medical Association and the Ministry of Health, added ...
Letters / BY: Ken Dent, MD, March 2013
... special issue didn’t address the health of all jailed in BC, both men and women! Health problems and their lack of ... theme issue focused on the health of incarcerated women in BC. The Editorial Board certainly concurs that the health of ...
News March 2013
Important changes have been made to the BC Palliative Care Benefits Program. Please read the ... of the form. Get the current form at www.health.gov.bc.ca/exforms/pharmacare/349fil.pdf . •    If a patient ... in the Relationship to Applicant field. •    New BC residents who do not yet have MSP coverage can still ...
News March 2013
... Medical Association 115-1665 West Broadway Vancouver, BC V6J 5A4 News Call for nominations: Bachop Gold Medal ...
News March 2013
... costs will mean an almost inevitable increase in taxes. BC is not the only province facing this challenge, nor the ...