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Obituaries / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2017
... was born in New Westminster on 2 January 1938 as a 3.5-lb premature baby and endured the struggles of being a ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2017
... who was set to perform the euthanasia withdrew support 5 days prior to the proposed date. Belgium has been ... who are a financial burden to the state. A recent study[ 5 ] of advanced cancer patients in the Netherlands found the ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS January/February 2017
As an elected Board and Executive member for the last 5 years, I have been privileged to represent and advocate for ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2017
... resulting in medicare as we know it now. The BCMA signed a 5-year master agreement with the government that brought its ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Rodney French, MD, MEd, FRCSC January/February 2017
... Recurrence rates are the main limitation and are 65% at 5 years;[ 2 ] however, the procedure can be repeated and does ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Chan, MD, MHsc March 2017
... ICU stay was 6.3 days. The in-hospital mortality rate was 5.2% and the overall 1-year mortality rate was 8.4%. Surgical ... both planned and unplanned reoperations. In 10 cases (5.0%), re-transplantation was required because of acute graft ... Biliary complications A bile leak occurred in 19 cases (9.5%) and three patients who developed a bile leak subsequently ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... in Canada in 1995 by the Ontario Ministry of Health.[ 5 ] The NCA assesses patients using a structured approach. A ... For instance, postmenopausal women with diabetes have a 2.5 times greater risk of having urinary incontinence than ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanda Hill, MBChB, FRCPC March 2017
... to the predictive accuracy of standardized instruments.[ 5 ] Understanding frailty Frailty refers to a state of ... and major morbidity.[ 8 ] A gait speed of less than 5 m/6 s (0.83 m/s) with a high STS score was associated with ... that included gait speed scores. They found that only the 5-m gait speed score was statistically significant. Gait ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joshua Budlovsky, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... bone mineral density (BMD) and opted to repeat the scan at 5-year intervals. Because Ms Stewart’s BMD from this first ... Stewart for osteoporosis 15 years ago. Today Ms Stewart is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 128 pounds. She has a history ... at 1 year, and an increased mortality rate persists for 5 years.[ 2,3 ] For a woman over 50 the lifetime risk of a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kenneth M. Madden, MD, MSc March 2017
... during tilt table testing) will not recall the event.[ 5 ] This lack of recall is even worse in cognitively impaired ...