News /
BY: Channelle Sawyer
October 2017
... review your insurance with a professional once every 2 to 5 years or whenever you have a major life event (e.g., ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: E. Pharo, BSc
November 2017
... for residual cellulitis. The specimen measured 1 cm by 1.5 cm and was sent to British Columbia Centre for Disease ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Travis Holyk, MA, EdD
November 2017
... at an even greater risk of reporting poor health status.[ 5 ] A history of sporadic, fragmented, and reactive primary ... of telehealth While most people in Canada live within 5 km of a physician, many do not, and the expansion of ... using face-to-face physician visits only (mean 32.02, SD 5.22) and patients using both face-to-face visits and ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD
November 2017
... poor sleep, stress, and poor self-reported health.[ 5 , 6 ] Finally, the negative health effects of climate ...
News
November 2017
... active patients. • Improved disease documentation by 5% by using disease codes rather than text documentation, so ...
Obituaries /
BY: Carol Stewart Walker
November 2017
... After trying the navy’s supply branch for about 5 years, Ron found it was not for him. His last ship was the ... Cambodia, Singapore, and Australia (where we married). A 5-week adventure tour of the national parks in India saw us ...
Premise /
BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd
November 2017
... only. Students studied 14 hours a day, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the classroom and then in the evening when Mr Kumar ... a book in his life, and writing one page could take 5 hours. He had help from a writing team: Mr Arun Kumar, a ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP
November 2017
... are produced endogenously, resulting in COHb levels of 0.5% in healthy individuals, but this normal level may vary. ... For example, cigarette smokers can have COHb levels of 5% to 10% depending on how much they smoke, while urban ... capacity. The half-life of COHb in room air is about 5 hours, but if 100% oxygen is administered, the half-life ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Brian Winsby, MD
December 2017
... have contributed to reducing emergency transfers by 5%, acute care admissions by 9%, and length of ER stays by ... can connect with a doctor after hours in as little as 3 to 5 minutes in some cases. South Okanagan Similkameen Division ...
News
December 2017
... the most vulnerable children in our province. In the past 5 years, more than 5000 children, pregnant women, and their ...