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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 ... lower than 350 cells/µl. This finding reinforces current BC-CfE treatment guidelines, which recommend that ART should ...
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 ... comparisons about waits for general surgery. Within BC wait time targets were developed across multiple ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB October 2015
... have all taken. Each year in early September, Doctors of BC has the privilege of joining the Canadian Medical ... by the students. Serving as an introduction to Doctors of BC, this event begins a relationship that will last through ... first time medical students were invited to be part of the BC caucus that attended the CMA's General Council meeting ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Yu Ling Cheng, BSc, MD, October 2015
... Network, a program that supports multicultural citizens in BC in optimal self-management of chronic diseases using ... eHealth Strategy Office 855 West 10th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L7 Beyond Medicine Communication tool to describe use ...
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 ( www.tidebc.org ), in 2011. TIDE-BC is the first Collaborative Area of Innovation initiative ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Vu, MD, FRCPC, November 2015
... in Vancouver, and facility storage is in Delta, BC. All requests for MMU deployments are received by the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rakel Kling, MD, MSc, November 2015
... is used by major labs across North America, including the BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory. ... bacterial antigens,[ 5 ] leading to false positives. The BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory uses a ... of results coming from such labs are false positives. In BC less than 1% of people tested for Lyme disease have the ...
Letters / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP November 2015
... climate is changing for the ways that doctors practise. In BC we have a new agreement with the government and ...
Letters / BY: Brian Winsby, MD November 2015
... that may cause unnecessary confusion among Doctors of BC members. The letter states that MSP wants to decrease ...
News November 2015
... Congratulations to Brandon Evtushevski, winner of the  BC Medical Journal ’s draw for an iPad. And thank you to ...