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Letters / BY: Michael M. O’Brien December 2016
... number of doctors in the province then (no orphans) was 1 for every 800 in the population, and now (a lot of orphans—200 000 with no FPs) is 1 for fewer than every 400. Doctors literally fought over ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Darren E.R. Warburton, PhD May 2016
... Hippocrates highlighted the importance of active living.[ 1 ] Today irrefutable evidence indicates that habitual ... objective measures of fitness are taken[ 9 ] (see  Table 1 ). There is clear evidence that health-related physical ... individuals become more physically active (see  Figure 1 ). Importantly, relatively minor increases in physical ...
News&Notes December 2016
... there are signs of spontaneous feminization. •    1,25(OH)2 vitamin D testing, with rare exception, is ... of spontaneous hy-poglycemia or to help distinguish type 1 diabetes from type 2 diabetes, but not for establishment of ... disorders with insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) is indicated only in patients who demonstrate ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD May 2016
The Laboratory Services Act (LSA) came into effect on 1 October 2015. The LSA replaces the Medicare Protection Act ...
News&Notes December 2016
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD May 2016
... attainable, realistic, and timely or trackable goals[ 1 ] for behavior change. The most successful SMART goals are ... services at HealthLink BC ( www.healthlinkbc.ca  or 8-1-1). •    MEND (mind, exercise, nutrition, do it) and ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC May 2016
... impacts on both treatment outcomes and PROMs scores.[ 1-3 ] All these factors are now measurable and so should be ... units with dissimilar patient catchment populations.[ 1 ] PROMs instruments were designed to compare the ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Will Offley, RN December 2016
... [of influenza] from them to their patients.”[ 1 ] This vaccinate or mask policy is not based on evidence, ...
Letters / BY: Michael Stanger, MD, May 2016
... indicates a significant improvement for the patient.[ 1 ] The demonstration that the PROMs value before and after ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2016
... and has been upheld as reasonable at arbitration in BC.[ 1 ] The policy is, in fact, predicated on several factors: ...