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News September 2015
... for the 2016 awards, visit  www.doctorsofbc.ca/resource-centre/awards-scholarships/health-promotion-awards . ... Federation and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. News Doctors of BC Excellence in Health award winners ...
News September 2015
Doctors of BC is accepting nominations for members in good standing for ... among physicians and groups of physicians Doctors of BC Silver Medal of Service Criteria for nominees include: ... For more information visit  www.doctorsofbc.ca/resource-centre/awards-scholarships . News Nominate your colleagues ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... the Communicable Disease Policy Committee, released the BC Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Prevention, Treatment and ... comorbidities, including country of birth. In a group of BC dialysis patients, interferon gamma release assays have ... Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, and the BC Centre for Disease Control gathered in 2014 to address these ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD October 2015
... are referred to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC). 9.    Patterns of practice or billing (including ... visit the Billing and Audits section under the Resource Centre tab on the Doctors of BC website (login required) to complete the Post-Audit Survey ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... effects. In 2013, 4% of youth age 12 to 19 surveyed in the BC Adolescent Health Survey reported using ecstasy.[ 1 ] In a ... there are between 15 and 23 ecstasy-related deaths in BC, and emergency departments frequently treat patients with ... and November 2011, the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre received calls from physicians caring for four ...
News October 2015
... Observational Cohort (CANOC) Collaboration, housed at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), has found the overall life expectancy of people ...
Premise / BY: T. Chan, MHsc, MD, October 2015
... 7 ] Wait times measurement methodology and challenges The BC Surgical Patient Registry (SPR) was created in 2008. The ... benchmark times has decreased.[ 11 ] A comparison of BC's performance in relation to provincial targets and ... for hospitals, provision of surgical care is a major cost centre to hospital and health authority budgets, which can ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sylvia Stockler-Ipsiroglu, MD, PhD, MBA, FRCPC, November 2015
... pediatric and adult populations worldwide.[ 1,2 ] Based on BC 2013 population estimates, this means that 18 000 to ... these findings into clinical practice, we established TIDE-BC, the Treatable Intellectual Disability Endeavour ( ... Children’s Hospital, the only tertiary/quaternary care centre in BC that provides specialized services for children ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Vu, MD, FRCPC, November 2015
... In addition to the pre-existing Whistler Health Care Centre that provided primary care to Whistler residents and ... in Vancouver, and facility storage is in Delta, BC. All requests for MMU deployments are received by the ... patient simulators, and disaster response training centre. Surgical capacity in the MMU was established for ...
News November 2015
Nominations of Doctors of BC members in good standing are being accepted for the following 2016 awards. Doctors of BC Silver Medal of Service Award This is awarded to ... information visit  http://www.doctorsofbc.ca/resource-centre/awards-scholarships  and  ...