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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD November 2014
... self-directed program engaged 74 participants in its first 5 years. Nearly 100% of the polled participants agreed that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle D. Sherwood, MD, December 2014
... illnesses and central nervous system infections.[ 5 ] Specifically, nonpolio EVs have increasingly been ... (AFP) in immunocompetent North American children.[ 5,6 ] Like poliovirus, enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) and others ... infections, is another serotype that may cause AFP.[ 5,6,8 ] EV-D68 was first identified in California in 1962 and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: E.M.M. Wong, MD December 2014
... and osteoporosis. She was taking hydrochlorothiazide (12.5 mg daily), valsartan (160 mg daily), carvedilol (12.5 mg b.i.d.), simvastatin (80 mg daily), and ranitidine (150 ... supplementation (12600-mg tablets daily) and calcitriol (0.5 mcg b.i.d.). Follow-up investigations revealed a normal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anna F. Lee, MDCM, PhD, FRCPC, December 2014
... 10% of deceased infants originally diagnosed with SIDS.[ 3-5 ] Similar findings were identified in individuals up to age ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christine Halpert, RN, BSN, MA, December 2014
... often resolving spontaneously within 4 days.[ 1-3 , 5 ] Children who experience such large local reactions after ... with the needle at a 90-degree angle to the skin.[ 5 ] The aluminum adjuvant contained in DaPT vaccines may ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD December 2014
... during the audit are extrapolated over the entire 5-year audit period? During an audit, a statistically ... rate is extrapolated to all the services billed during the 5-year audit period. What this means from a practical ... Dr A, a busy urban physician, has MSP billings over the 5-year audit period of $1 800 970.54. Dr A has been ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD December 2014
... associated with meaningful use levels 4 and 5 (MU4 and MU5). •    With comprehensive patient ...
Letters December 2014
... INR deviations are profound: compared with an INR of 2-2.5, risk of embolism increases nearly fourfold at an INR of ... hemorrhage (ICH) increases similarly at 3.6-4.5.[ 2 ] Even in the controlled environment of clinical ... the Canadian experience, this is a spurious comparison.[ 5 ] The accuracy of that method of data collection is ...
MDs To Be / BY: Jason An, BSc(Hons), December 2014
... had a cesarean. "You were born on 16 June around 5 a.m., an early-morning boy," she told me with a nostalgic ... theatre, I glance at the clock on the wall. It is 5:20 a.m., 16 June 2014. An early-morning boy. I come to the ...
News December 2014
... Doctors of BC plans have a high approval rate (fewer than 5% of disability claims are declined). There are specific ...