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News March 2013
Lung cancer specialists at the BC Cancer Agency now have access to a three-dimensional ... diagnosis, staging, and care for lung cancer patients in BC. The equipment, funded by the BC Cancer Foundation, is the first of its kind to be used in ...
News March 2013
... scans of 95 preterm infants born 8 to 16 weeks early at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre between 2006 and ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Martha J. Ignaszewski, March 2013
... Janusz Korczak has been named an honorary member of the BC Pediatric Society.  Born Henryk Goldszmit, Korczak did ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Rajala MD, FRCPC, April 2013
... risk factors are shown in  Table 2 .[ 19-21 ] In BC, patients attempting to quit smoking can access a smoking ... despite these benefits, CR is currently underutilized in BC, particularly among women and the elderly. Many barriers ... of the known benefits, cardiac rehabilitation programs in BC are currently underutilized. We hope to change this by ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tyler W. Smith, MD, MHSc, FRCPC April 2013
... (the five-test panel costs $292.09 per patient in BC, based on the 2012 Medical Service Plan laboratory fee ... a formal assessment of HT test ordering by physicians in BC. We began by surveying academic hematologists and other ... and clinician characteristics. Methods In May 2009, 12 BC specialists with ex­pertise in thrombosis (eight academic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... provinces have guidelines for home oxygen therapy.[ 8-10 ] BC’s Home Oxygen Program Previously, the Home Oxygen ... to pay privately.  To access home oxygen therapy through BC’s HOP, patients must be referred by a physician or nurse ... 3 July 2012, new criteria based on a recent review by BC HOP physicians and managers have been in effect (see box). ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Natalie Prystajecky, PhD, SCCM April 2013
... the number of re­ported gastroenteritis outbreaks across BC compared with previous seasons. The number of reported ... To track the transmission patterns of norovirus in BC, the environmental microbiology laboratory genotypes ... variant that had not previous­ly been observed in BC. This strain, nam­ed GII.4 Sydney (2012), was first ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD April 2013
... medical expense on their income tax returns.  HealthLink BC online ( www.healthlinkbc.ca ) or by phone (8-1-1) is a ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2013
On 22 February the government of BC and the BCMA announced that they are partnering to improve ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2013
... usage data from more than 98000 high-needs patients in BC. It focused on two common chronic diseases, diabetes and ... Ministry of Health estimates that about 176000 people in BC are without a family doctor and actively looking for one. ... efforts, funding for more nurse practitioners in BC, and GPSC programs like the Practice Support Program and ...