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Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... privileges and monitor the competence of practitioners.[ 1 ] In British Columbia, the responsibility for privileging ... of practitioners involved was relatively small (about 1% of the province’s radiologists), the effect on public ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Malcolm Brigden, MDCM, FRCPC, FACP, January/February 2014
... 50, 5% over age 65, and almost 10% of those 85 or older.[ 1-4 ] When considered as a group, patients with monoclonal ... of undetermined significance (MGUS) have an approximately 1% cumulative chance per year of ultimately developing a ... approach when monoclonal protein is found.[ 1-3 ] What is monoclonal gammo-pathy, and when can it be ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Karen Rideout, PhD, January/February 2014
... over 8% of BC residents experience food insecurity,[ 1 ] and food bank use is up over 20% since 2008.[ 2 ] Food ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2014
... cognitive changes, nutrition, hydration, and skin care.[ 1-3 ] All these activities are very time consuming and ... with dementia. This number is expected to quadruple to 1.4 million by 2031, according to the Alzheimer Society of ... that dementia care costs have reached $650 billion, or 1% of the world’s GDP. These costs are expected to triple ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2014
Medical drama script excerpt: Scene 1: Quiet post-op hospital room where healthy 60-year-old ...
Letters / BY: Allan Donkin, MD, January/February 2014
... observing the developments in Europe (as one example),[ 1 ] that is not what I am referring to. I am referring rather ...
Letters / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM January/February 2014
... Are we ready to prevent potential overdoses? Between 1 February and 1 March 2014 Pharmacare will transition patients on methadone ... the currently compounded anhydrous methadone solution (1 mg/mL) to Methadose, a 10 mg/mL solution.[ 1,2 ] Methadose ...
Letters / BY: R.M. Preshaw, MD January/February 2014
... for-profit, chiropractic clinic in Buffalo, New York.[ 1 ] It is not difficult to suppose this review may have some ...
Letters / BY: Jeffrey Quon, DC, MHSc, PhD, FCCSC January/February 2014
... nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, and muscle relaxants.[ 1-10 ]  The article specifically references Dagenais and ...
News January/February 2014
... however, drug spending has decreased by approximately 1%, despite the aging population. Steve Morgan, a professor ...