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Clinical Articles / BY: Kathleen Eddy, BSc, January/February 2013
... in British Columbia increased by approximately 50%.[ 1 ] While these numbers can only be truly understood in the ... rating scale for appropriateness shown in  Table 1 .  A subset of 325 requisitions representing all cases ... was done using the appropriateness scale shown in  Table 1  as well as by a second scale derived from the Butler ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rana S. A. Khan, MBBS, January/February 2013
... duration of postoperative ileus, and pulmonary function.[ 1 ] Total morbidity and local (surgical) morbidity were ... the disease characteristics summarized in  Table 1 . Image-based preoperative and postoperative TNM staging ... performed 78 right, 42 sigmoid, 5 left, 2 subtotal, 1 transverse, and 1 segmental colon resection, as well as 6 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Debra A. Kent, PharmD, DABAT, FAACT January/February 2013
... on 10 008 cases involving children less than 6 years old.1 While 95% developed no toxicity or only minimal symptoms, 99 cases (< 1%) had moderate or major outcomes.[ 1 ]  A recent review of poisonings in the US reported that ...
Letters / BY: Ebrahim Rafi-Zadeh, MD, January/February 2013
... blue book, one GP in that community has billed the MSP $1 204 796, one GP over $700 000, and two GPs over $600 ... see that a lot of doctors have been billing the MSP over $1 or $2 million, and a few close to $3 million. The disparity ...
Letters / BY: Simon Moore, MD, CCFP January/February 2013
With up to 75% of physicians reporting burnout,[ 1 ] it is now more important than ever to understand the ...
Letters / BY: Jim Busser, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, January/February 2013
... 37 directors costing the membership annually more than $1.2 million. It has not confronted its failure to foster ...
MDs To Be / BY: Laura Budd, BMSc, January/February 2013
... tools providing channels for connecting people.[ 1 ] Social media enables real-time sharing of text, audio, ... tracked user concerns and helped to predict flu outbreaks 1 to 2 weeks earlier than the CDC.[ 14 ]  Positive online ... physicians toward safe and effective use of social media.[ 1 , 16 , 18 , 20 ] Acknowledgments Thank you to Dr Sam Bugis ...
MDs To Be / BY: Joshua Lai, BSc, January/February 2013
... heart pounding to the beat of Korotkoff’s rhythm. Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, no sound—Phase 4. Finally, a reading ...
News / BY: Kate Senkow, January/February 2013
By 1 February 2013, the BC Medical Association’s website will ...
News January/February 2013
... at llynch@bcma.bc.ca , 604 638-2882, or toll free 1 800 665-2262 ext. 2882. News BCMA parental leave benefits ...