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Beyond Medicine / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2017
... negotiations that eventually dragged on for almost 2 years. By 1981, Dr Alex Mandeville was president and the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Rodney French, MD, MEd, FRCSC January/February 2017
... rates are the main limitation and are 65% at 5 years;[ 2 ] however, the procedure can be repeated and does not ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Chan, MD, MHsc March 2017
... follow-up was 168 weeks (median 161 weeks) with a range of 2 days (early postoperative mortality) to 7 years. Patient ... Table 1 ). The mean MELD score for patients studied was 19.2 (range 2.0–41.0). The mean CP score was 9.7 (range 6.0–15.0). ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... be 24% to 28% of the total population by the year 2063,[ 2 ] a parallel increase in the number of older patients with ... For instance, postmenopausal women with diabetes have a 2.5 times greater risk of having urinary incontinence than ... adults with diabetes, fecal incontinence was present in 13.2% of individuals.[ 17 ] Other comorbidities associated with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanda Hill, MBChB, FRCPC March 2017
... who underwent outpatient procedures were 65 and older.[ 1,2 ] The care of frail older adults is challenging because ... significant. Gait speed demonstrated an odds ratio of 2.63 for predicting postoperative mortality or major ... nursing facility. Patients not assessed as frail had a 4.2-day hospital stay, 19.5% postoperative complication rate, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joshua Budlovsky, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... active smoker. While her first BMD measurement (T score 22.2 at the hip) and most recent measurement (T score 22.4) were ... and an increased mortality rate persists for 5 years.[ 2,3 ] For a woman over 50 the lifetime risk of a hip fracture ... of bisphosphonate-associated atypical fracture is between 2 and 78 cases per 100 000 person-years. Thus, for every 100 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kenneth M. Madden, MD, MSc March 2017
... to the Canadian health care system of $60 million a year.[ 2,3 ] Syncope is commonly defined as “a transient loss of ... the usual causes of OH, but there are many others ( Table 2 ). Once the underlying cause of OH has been addressed, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark W. Tyndall, MD, ScD, FRCPC March 2017
... been a steady increase in overdose deaths over the past 2 years, December 2016 had the highest monthly total of ... have contributed to the current opioid overdose crisis.[ 2,3 ] In response, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ronald A. Remick, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... as effective as antidepressants or cognitive therapy.[ 1,2 ] Current research focuses on determining what types of ... BC in conjunction with the Greater Vancouver YMCA. In each 2-hour weekly session, the first hour is devoted to physical ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS March 2017
... has been well documented in the medical literature.[ 1,2 ] Proven benefits for patients include the preservation of ... tool for improving health care for older adults. In Part 2 of the theme issue we will look at how CGA can be deployed ...