Search
News
April 2017
... cancer with a poor survival rate of only 30% to 46% after 1 year. Patients completed a psychological screening ...
News
April 2017
... prescriptions because of cost in 2014, in comparison to 1 in 20 Canadians aged 65 and older—who, by way of age, ... developed countries” ( http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/e014287 ); and CMAJ Open —“Cost-related nonadherence ... of a telephone survey” ( http://cmajopen.ca/content/5/1/E40.full ). News Older Canadians skip meds, risk ...
News
April 2017
... of 35 million people, shows vitamin D could spare 1.75 million people having one RTI per year. Vitamin D ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Geoff C. Jarvie, MD, MHSc
May 2017
... care provider is musculoskeletal pain or disability,[ 1 ] and such complaints account for up to 28% of all problems ... physical disability and absence from the workforce.[ 1 ] Shoulder pain is the third most common complaint ... referral to specialist assessment was 138 (99) days. Table 1 presents the diagnoses and demographic characteristics of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
May 2017
... HPV vaccine (HPV9 or Gardasil 9, Merck Canada Inc.),[ 1 ] which was introduced into the program for girls in ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Emily Peterson, MPH
May 2017
... Since 1900 the average temperature in BC has increased by 1.4 °C per century.[ 1 ] In addition to rising average temperature, BC can expect ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Susan Papadionissiou
May 2017
... is a core attribute of the patient medical home model,[ 1 ] and a key foundational piece in building an integrated ... does not rest solely on the physician’s shoulders.[ 1 ] Much of the work toward developing a team-based care ...
Letters /
BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS
May 2017
... published in The Annals of Family Medicine in 2004.[ 1 ] Adoption really took off when Obama’s Affordable Care ... patient satisfaction and measurable care outcomes, a 2 to 1 return on investment, a Medicare reduction of $325 per ...
Letters /
BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
May 2017
... content on the risk-benefit paradox of exercise[ 1 ] in cardiac adverse complication/prevention and cancer ...