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News March 2014
... with patients using fee code 14076. Retroactive to 1 January 2014, the General Practice Services Committee ...
News March 2014
... by 22 colleges under the Health Professions Act, and 1 under the Social Workers Act, have incorporated under the ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
“Unsafe at School: Advocating for Children with Type 1 Diabetes” was published in the June 2012 issue of the  ... BCMJ  2012;54:232-237 ). The article describes how type 1 diabetes, unlike other common, life-threatening illnesses ... province-wide policy that will keep children with type 1 diabetes safe at school at last. Changes were planned to ...
Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... which is more than 3 times that of HIV (9 per million).[ 1 ] Results from qualitative reports of BC data available at ... of abusing painkillers was 15.2% (opioid 14%, oxycontin 1.2%).[ 3 ] Of importance is that 19% of students indicated ... of 0.3%), and was greater than the use of stimulants (0.1%), and sedatives and tranquilizers (0.2%).[ 4 ] Obtaining ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Shelley Perlman, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, March 2014
Case 1 A 40-year-old shipmate fell asleep while watchkeeping. His ... diagnostic accuracy of clinical impression alone is poor.[ 1 ] Polysomnography is the gold standard in diagnostic ... motor vehicle incident should not drive for at least 1 month.[ 4 ] During this period, physicians should reassess ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ryan Wilson, BSc, April 2014
... incidence rate of 2.3 cases per 100 000 patients.[ 1,2 ] Despite recent advances in the investigation and ... particularly one involving biliary tract pathology.[ 1,3 ] Less often, bacteria spread by way of the portal vein or hematogenously during systemic infection,[ 1 ] with periodontal disease being recognized increasingly as ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2014
... in Kelowna in the summer of 2013. Aside from a rash of 1 day’s duration and a stinging-quality pain of the ... a frequency of 0.18 cases per 1000 vaccine patient years.[ 1 ] A subsequent study concluded that children who receive ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Joanne Stares, MHSc, April 2014
... Canada having some of the highest rates of IBD reported.[ 1,2 ] A north-south gradient has been identified in its ... hygiene rather than factors related to latitude itself.[ 1,3,4 ] There are few reported cluster investigations of IBD, ... remaining only slightly elevated in Trail by 2011 ( Figure 1  and  Figure 2 ).[ 7 ] The consistency of these trends ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2014
... guidelines, and medical databases in patient care,[ 1 ] a percentage that has almost certainly risen since then. ...
Letters / BY: John Dale, MD, April 2014
... the article written by Dr Pereira in  Current Oncology [ 1 ] is a great example of pseudoscience. Publication in a ...