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News January/February 2017
Obituaries / BY: Meryl Begert January/February 2017
Dr Herbert C. Welch was born in Victoria, BC, on 9 May 1925, but moved with his family up island to Qualicum ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2017
... its actual use. A retrospective population-based study[ 9 ] of 2013 deaths showed that only 47% of patients actually ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Chan, MD, MHsc March 2017
... studied 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 ... as part of a damage-control approach. In 24 cases (11.9%), this was necessary because of cardiovascular ... Biliary complications A bile leak occurred in 19 cases (9.5%) and three patients who developed a bile leak ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... to toilet and clean up after an incontinence episode.[ 9 ]  The holistic approach to bladder and bowel incontinence ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanda Hill, MBChB, FRCPC March 2017
... ability when compared with other frailty scales.[ 9 ] The Canadian Study of Health and Aging frailty index ... stay, 19.5% postoperative complication rate, and a 2.9% chance of disposition to a skilled nursing facility. It is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joshua Budlovsky, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... being discharged from hospital, where she was admitted for 9 days following a hip fracture. You review her discharge ... starting point for women who are not exercising currently.9 While important for general health and for reducing the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kenneth M. Madden, MD, MSc March 2017
... scales have been developed and internally validated,[ 9 ] but consequent external validation has demonstrated poor ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS March 2017
... and increased utilization of health care services,[ 9 ] both of which may be addressed in part by appropriate ...
Letters / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD March 2017
... survey of  BCMJ  readers indicated that “only about 9% of readers use bcmj.org as their primary reading ...