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Letters / BY: Robert Love, MD January/February 2017
... the office at 5:30 p.m. daily. Now he leaves closer to 7:00 p.m. In addition, patients have been complaining about ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Rockerbie, PhD January/February 2017
... fatalities. In view of the random annual variation of ±4.7% in the 4 years preceding marijuana legalization, the ... are the subject of a recent comprehensive review.[ 7 ] —R.A. Rockerbie, PhD Medico-Legal Pharmacologist, ...
News / BY: Eric Wong January/February 2017
... an estimated 3.8 million adult Canadians, roughly 13.7% of the adult population, reported being limited in their ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2017
... that it is the only option to end suffering? A study[ 7 ] of 728 patients with chronic disease showed that almost ... from Benelux countries and the US showed only 4.2% to 6.7% of applicants for PAD see a psychiatrist[ 13 ] despite a ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC January/February 2017
... (nine to zero) that it was a violation of Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to deny ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Chan, MD, MHsc March 2017
... with a range of 2 days (early postoperative mortality) to 7 years. Patient records were reviewed specifically to ... was 19.2 (range 2.0–41.0). The mean CP score was 9.7 (range 6.0–15.0). Based on the mean MELD score, the ... vein thrombosis (HVT). HAT occurred in 15 transplants (7.5%), with 12 cases defined as early HAT (detected at or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... to a patient’s sense of well-being and sense of self,[ 7 ] and can interfere with the ability to perform daily ... as well as urination patterns and severity of symptoms. A 7-day bladder diary has been shown to produce a stable and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanda Hill, MBChB, FRCPC March 2017
... of outcome when used in studies that evaluate frailty.[ 7 ] There are many validated tools to quantify frailty, but ... reasonable predictive ability.[ 12 ] Frail patients had a 7.7-day hospital stay, a 45.0% postoperative complication rate, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joshua Budlovsky, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... in 10 years is 21% and her risk of a hip fracture is 8.7%. After you and Ms Stewart discuss the risks and benefits ... using BMD alone to calculate a patient’s fracture risk.[ 7 ] Instead, the guidelines recommend two well-validated ... to prevent fracture, but clinical judgment is key.[ 7 ] The FRAX tool can be used to calculate a 10-year fracture ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kenneth M. Madden, MD, MSc March 2017
... find a cause for the episode one-quarter of the time.[ 7 ] This diagnostic uncertainty can lead to a multiplicity of ... role in the workup for syncope somewhat uncertain.[ 7 ] The current consensus is that echocardiography should be ... for 24 hours has a low overall diagnostic yield of 7%, but this yield has been found to double if the patient ...