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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC October 2014
... 2014. Half of these calls involved children younger than 4 years old. Fortunately, no patient developed serious ... school students who had tried e-cigarettes doubled from 4.7% to 10%.[ 15 ]  Going forward Carefully conducted ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... Older age is also a risk factor for adverse drug events,[ 4 ] due in part to the exponential increase in potential drug ... of years in practice reported by participants was 20.4 (range 1 to 37 years), with an average number of years in ... who responded were each responsible for an average of 69.4 residential care patients, accounting for approximately ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Horkoff, MD, FRCSC November 2014
... be secondary to the protuberance of cervical osteophytes.[ 4 ] In this case, the most probable diagnosis was diffuse ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Raymond Li, BSc(Pharm), MSc November 2014
... of patients, with seizures in 0.8% and hallucinations in 0.4%. Almost 25% of patients were evaluated at a health care ... the popular user experience website, Erowid.org, in 2001.[ 4 ] The first report of recreational use of bupropion in ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD November 2014
... of family physician obstetrical billers decreased by about 4%.[ 1 ] As prenatal and obstetrical care provided by family ...
News&Notes / BY: Benjamin Brzezynski, MA, November 2014
... not positions. 3.    Invent options for mutual gain. 4.    Insist on using objective criteria. The approach to ... ] as well as negotiation and conflict management courses[ 4 ] in Toronto and Ottawa. While medicine may be the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Nancy McLachlan, November 2014
... cover the cost of opioid medication for up to a maximum of 4 weeks postinjury or postsurgery. (Our current policy allows ... may pay for extensions of opioid prescriptions beyond the 4-week acute period (see the details, below). There is no ... a request to pay for an opioid prescription beyond 4 weeks, the prescribing physician will be sent a form asking ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle D. Sherwood, MD, December 2014
... secretions, or close contact with infected people.[ 4 ] Peak EV transmission occurs in the summer and fall in temperate climates.[ 4 ] Nonpolio EV infections are largely asymptomatic, but can ... mild weakness in his right shoulder and neck flexors (–4/5). Nerve conduction tests in the right arm and neck found ...
Clinical Articles / BY: E.M.M. Wong, MD December 2014
... hormone (PTH) level at 119 pmol/L (reference range 1.2-8.4 pmol/L), elevated ionized calcium at 1.88 mmol/L (reference ... with a family history, but only 65% in sporadic cases.[ 3,4 ] For the  CDC73  mutation, sensitivity is poor at 20% to ... is a well-documented reaction to ambiguous results.[ 4 ] There is also evidence that health care professionals ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christine Halpert, RN, BSN, MA, December 2014
... and tetanus (DaPT) containing vaccine at 18 months and 4 to 6 years of age, respectively. These are commonly known ... immunity stimulated by acellular pertussis products.[ 4 ] Regardless of the reason, these reactions are self-limited, often resolving spontaneously within 4 days.[ 1-3 , 5 ] Children who experience such large local ...