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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 ...