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Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... death in Ontario in 2004 was estimated at 27.2 per million people, which is more than 3 times that of HIV ... deaths in 2008, more than cocaine and heroin combined.[ 2 ] Emerging addictions Significant attention has been paid ... was 8.7%, whereas the rate of abusing painkillers was 15.2% (opioid 14%, oxycontin 1.2%).[ 3 ] Of importance is that ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Shelley Perlman, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, March 2014
... compliant and has used CPAP downloads for monitoring. Case 2 Two airline pilots fell asleep while cruising over Hawaii. ... collisions and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.[ 2 ] CPAP is the treatment of choice for sleep apnea.[ 2 ] Increased CPAP adherence has been shown to improve ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ryan Wilson, BSc, April 2014
... life-threatening, with an estimated incidence rate of 2.3 cases per 100 000 patients.[ 1,2 ] Despite recent advances in the investigation and ... of such abscesses, the mortality rate still ranges from 2% to 12%.[ 3,4 ] Amebic liver abscess is the most common ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2014
... children who are naturally infected by wild-type VZV.[ 2 ] A large American study found the incidence of zoster ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Joanne Stares, MHSc, April 2014
... having some of the highest rates of IBD reported.[ 1,2 ] A north-south gradient has been identified in its ... in Trail in the recent past. However, for the last 2 years assessed, rates in Trail were similar to those in ... elevated in Trail by 2011 ( Figure 1  and  Figure 2 ).[ 7 ] The consistency of these trends across all three ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2014
... from the 2010 National Physician Survey indicated that 69.2% of BC physicians were using online journals, clinical ... and 372 500 hospital days per year in the United States.[ 2 ] UpToDate contains features to help physicians practise ... reading articles and stores the information for up to 2 years.  Access for members of divisions of family practice ...
Letters / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI April 2014
... of the cancers detected by mammography was 19 mm, only 2 mm smaller than those detected by clinical breast exam. ...
Letters / BY: John Dale, MD, April 2014
... does not guarantee factual rigidity. A follow-up article[ 2 ] in the same journal debunks his claims in great detail, ... suicide and euthanasia in Canada and around the world.”[ 2 ] Incidentally, Dr Pereira’s paper was used as expert ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME April 2014
... to WorkSafeBC. (a)    True     (b)    False 2.    You’ve just encountered an emergency in your ... medical or medical-legal issues related to recovery.  2.    (b) WorkSafeBC does not provide patient care, nor do ... on an unstable fracture.              Example 2: driving after a new diagnosis of epilepsy.        ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ramesh Saeedi, MD, PhD, May 2014
... cholesterol (non-HDL-C) levels.[ 1,2 ] The association of elevated Lp(a) with an increased risk ... responsible for the functional properties of Lp(a).[ 1,2 ] The presence of apo(a) increases the density of Lp(a) ... and continuous association between Lp(a) and CVD,[ 1,2 ] while others indicate that the risk is markedly greater ...