Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Brenda Hefford, MD
April 2015
... can support physician efficiency and effectiveness.[ 2 ] With centralized expertise and improved communications,[ ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Csilla Egri, MSc,
April 2015
... or swimming to Cuba to afford basic medical coverage.[ 2 ] These sensationalist stories attempt to highlight the ... service or the health care system is shown in Table 2 . Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS version 20 ...
News /
BY: Channelle Sawyer
April 2015
... you review your policies with a trusted advisor every 1 to 2 years. These reviews commonly involve changes or updates ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Martha J. Ignaszewski,
May 2015
... 1% of Canadians,[ 1 ] with prevalence rates climbing.[ 2 ] Compared with the general population, people with schizophrenia have a risk of premature death that is 2 to 3 times higher.[ 3,4 ] Although suicide and high-risk ... schizophrenics, with poor cardiorespiratory fitness being 2 times higher than in the general population.[ 9 ] As well ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Linda Dix-Cooper, MSc,
May 2015
... and developmental toxicants than women born in Canada.[ 2,3 ] Heavy metals (lead, mercury, and cadmium), PCBs, and ...
Editorials /
BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD
May 2015
... increase in the number of young adults with type 2 diabetes in my practice. Some have a genetic basis but a greater number do not and behave just like adult type 2 patients. This is a diagnosis that I rarely saw until a few ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Brian Winsby, MD
May 2015
... setting) delivering residential care services dropped 13%[ 2 ] between 2003 and 2013. Most notable, the Fraser Health ... Coastal Health Authority saw declines of 27% and 24%2 respectively. The Ministry of Health developed five ... 1. 24/7 availability and on-site when required 2. Proactive visits to residents 3. Meaningful ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: Nigel Adams, MB, CCFP, MRO,
May 2015
... and recommended I phone for an appointment. Around 2 p.m., with BP a little elevated, I called Parksville with ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ryan R. Woods, PhD
June 2015
... shift on the social system and broader economy.[ 2-6 ] From a health care perspective, an aging population ... of population screening, average rates for the past 2 years were estimated for each age group and used to project ... rates have been essentially flat over the past decade (-0.2% APC for males; 0.4% APC for females). Despite this, there ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Christine Halpert, RN, BSN, MA,
June 2015
... to medical procedures in healthy infants and children.[ 2 ] In BC, the immunization schedule calls for 13 to 15 ... should be administered prior to injected vaccines at the 2- and 4-month visits.[ 10 ] • Immunization ... able to place the cream or patch on the appropriate site.[ 2 , 8,9 ] There is no one strategy that will work for every ...