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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Emily Peterson, MPH May 2017
... weather events, retreat of glaciers, and sea level rise.[ 2 ] Climate change will impact human health in BC through ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou May 2017
... 2014, leaving 23 344 patients without a family doctor.[ 2 ] Building on an existing team-based care model The ... to a GP, and decreased the cesarean rate from 31% to 21%.[ 2 ] As the division considered options for addressing the ... in patient wait times for access to primary care from 2 months to 3 weeks. One clinic, initially designated as an ...
Letters / BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS May 2017
... patient satisfaction and measurable care outcomes, a 2 to 1 return on investment, a Medicare reduction of $325 per ... and a 7% reduction in visits to the emergency department.[ 2 ] The initiatives were physician led and broadly fee ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC May 2017
... cardiac adverse complication/prevention and cancer risk.[ 2 ] An article published ahead of print on 13 February 2017 ...
News May 2017
... please refer to the GPSC’s mental health billing guide.[ 2 ] Pharmacare coverage Effective 1 February 2017, Pharmacare ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, [ 2 ] is one of the books mentioned in Kalanithi’s account. ... experiences to “demythologize the process of dying.”[ 2 ] After several chapters detailing the various ways in ... to meet our need as physicians or our patient’s needs?[ 2 ] Nuland also notes how sometimes physicians will provide ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Reid, BSc, BN June 2017
... acceptable wait times for a consultation and procedure.[ 2 ] According to these statements, patients with acute ... or odynophagia, should be assessed endoscopically within 2 weeks. Indications for an assessment target of 2 months include bright red rectal bleeding, iron deficiency ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elena Terekhova, MD, PhD June 2017
... genetics, oncology, neurology, and rehabilitation.[ 2 ] Evidence indicates that telemedicine can be a safe option ... in the volume of clinical sessions between 2012 and 2014.[ 2 ] Despite the potential benefits of virtual care in BC, ... 149 in the second year, for a total of 25 431 users in a 2-year period ( Figure 1 ). The total number of consultations ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM June 2017
... vaccinated individuals, IgM may be absent or short-lived,[ 2 ] and detection of IgG, traditionally associated with ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tania Morrison, MHSc, RD June 2017
... a lack of budgeting, food skills, or cooking knowledge.[ 2 ] Simply put, food insecurity is “the inadequate or ...