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Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... goals and providing sophisticated care coordination.[ 2 ] Palliative care is no longer reserved for a time when all ... better quality-of-life and mood scores. They also survived 2.7 months longer than those who received usual care, despite ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jonathan Pearce, MD, CCFP(PC) June 2016
... were less likely to receive chemotherapy in the last 2 weeks of life, had lower rates of ventilation, ... intensive care use, and overall improved quality of life.[ 2 , 3 ] Importantly, such discussions were not associated ... and alertness at the end of life as outlined in Table 2 . A handout about imminent death for family members is a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alan T. Bates, MD, PhD June 2016
... and how everyone lives as a “single individual.”[ 2 ] Kierkegaard also explored the emotions of people making ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Linda M.N. Hoang, MSc, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC June 2016
... from 8.6 per 10 000 inpatient days in 2009–10 to 4.2 per 10 000 inpatient days in 2014–15. Among the ... which is double the number of those cases in 2009–10.[ 2 ] This increase in incidence of community-associated C. ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP June 2016
... percentile for BLL for Canadian adults is approximately 0.2 to 0.3 µmol/L. Adverse health effects associated with ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD June 2016
... New York, NY: Page Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1-68139-655-2. Paperback. Dr Hassan was in several of my classes while ...
News / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2016
... of water shortages as global temperatures rise.[ 2 ] The human health implications of water scarcity are ...
Letters / BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD September 2016
... systematic reviews by Furlan,[ 1 ] Ballantyne,[ 2 ] Chou,[ 3 ] and colleagues suggest that, on average, there ... Columbia Letters Safe prescribing. College replies (2) ...
Editorials / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... CHD and 0.38 cases per 1000 adults for severe lesions,[ 2 ] and that an equal number of adults and children were ... has occurred in those with more severe forms of CHD.[ 2 ] In 2010, adults represented 66% of the entire CHD ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marla Kiess, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... incredible atlas describing 1000 CHD cases in 1936.[ 2 ] The first surgical procedure was ligation of a patent ...