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WorkSafeBC / BY: Derek Smith, MD, FRCSC November 2016
... Achilles tendon ruptures are misdiagnosed initially.[ 1 , 4 ] Diagnosis is based on history and physical examination. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christine Lukac, MPH October 2016
... increase the risk of transmission and acquisition of HIV.[ 4 ] In BC about 40% of syphilis cases are co-infected with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Gabriel, MD, MSc, CCFP October 2016
... and timeliness of care are all affected. [ 1 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] Ideally, every Canadian would receive ... speak a language other than English at home and 3.4% of the population (5.7% in Metro Vancouver) have no ... in 145 calls. The average length of a call was 12.4 minutes and the average cost per call was approximately $22 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ivana Jakovljevic, MD October 2016
... Discussion An estimated 12.6% of children and youth age 4 to 17—almost 84 000 young British Columbians—are ... approximately one in five BC children age 0 to 17 (20.4%) are living in poverty,[ 3 ] and the numbers are ... bank last year in BC, with 31% of users being children.[ 4 ] Furthermore, families with the fewest economic resources ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC October 2016
... that spread dengue fever and Zika virus disease.[ 2 , 3 , 4 ] In December 2013 the first locally acquired CHIKV ... had been reported and the outbreak was still spreading.[ 4 ] In Canada, 320 confirmed cases and 159 probable cases had ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Jeffrey Quon, DC, MHSc, PhD, FCCSC October 2016
... for optimal management of axial spine pain,[ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] the degree of adherence across different health care ...
News / BY: Dirk van Niekerk, MD, FRCPC October 2016
... latter having its highest overall rates in this group.[ 4 , 5 ] It is critical that health care providers find ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Chris Rumball, MD October 2016
... drugs in their system tripled between 2005 and 2014 from 3.4% to 12.1%.[ 2 ] Driver impairment from marijuana use may be ... higher than 5 ng/mL 24 hours following ingestion.[ 4 ] This diminishes the chance that unfair convictions would ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bakul Dalal, MD, July/August 2016
... The clinical features of PNH are shown in Table 1 .[ 3 , 4 ] The most common are fatigue (typically out of proportion ... lowest in cases of bicytopenia (1.8%) and unicytopenia (0.4%). We also subdivided the unicytopenia cases ( Table 4 ) and found these were notable for the rarity of positive ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jaclyn R. Farquhar, MD July/August 2016
... than double the average increase across Canada (1.7%).[ 4 ] Statistics Canada estimates that in 2011–12 one in four ...