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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ronald A. Remick, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... to be 150 minutes per week (i.e., 30 minutes per day, 5 times per week) of moderate physical activity to receive ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2017
... connect to various destinations. We were all onboard the 5:00 a.m. flight when the captain asked us to deplane as one ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS March 2017
... has been successfully applied in the acute care setting[ 4,5 ] as well as in the ambulatory care setting,[ 6-8 ] where ...
MDs To Be / BY: Marc Jutras, BBA, UBC Medicine, Class of 2018 March 2017
... in subsequent editions, including the current  DSM-5 , published in 2013.[ 3 ] With theoretical frameworks and a ... cognitions and emotions underlying mental disorders.[ 5,6 ] When combined with principles of behaviorism, this ...
News / BY: Rory Sutherland, UBC MD Candidate, Class of 2019 March 2017
... catheterization centres in the province in the next 3 to 5 years. It is expected that 1000 to 2000 individuals (index ...
Premise / BY: Kevin Wade, CD, MD, CCFP March 2017
... for Health System Transformation and Sustainability,[ 5 ] and the privileging project represents a dramatic ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Derek Smith, MD, FRCSC March 2017
... unable to show any functional improvement, only cosmetic.[ 5,6 ] Distal ruptures generally present with bruising and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marisa Wan, MD, FRCPC April 2017
... to link multifactorial medical conditions and delirium.[ 5 ] During a systemic inflammatory response such as sepsis, ... and can last for months after the initial event.[ 5 ]  Anticholinergic medications are known to induce or ... used diagnostic definition of delirium is based on  DSM-5  criteria and requires a new acute disturbance in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul Blackburn, MD, FRCPC April 2017
... for combined symptoms of major and minor depression.[ 5 ] Older adults in institutions have demonstrated even ... Generally, the diagnosis of LLD can be made using  DSM-5  criteria. However, contextual challenges must be ... (classified as major neurocognitive disorder in  DSM-5 ) or another neurological illness. Loss of weight or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Lai, MD, FRCPC April 2017
... guidelines recommend a target HbA1c level of 7.1% to 8.5% for patients with limited life expectancy, a higher level ... even those not known to cause withdrawal symptoms. Step 5: Monitoring, support, and documentation Patient monitoring ... be withdrawn, (4) planning and initiating withdrawal, and (5) monitoring and documenting the process. Evidence is ...