Clinical Articles /
BY: Jerry C. Chen, MD, FRCSC
October 2017
... cause chest pain, visual disturbance, and even stroke.[ 9 ] In general, foam sclerotherapy should be performed with ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Damon Ramsey, MD
December 2017
... are the most underutilized resource in health care.”[ 9 ] This is a resource CHRs can make better use of by fully ... best intentions to integrate tools like the PHQ-9 questionnaire used for assessing patients for depression ... would automatically be asked to complete the PHQ-9 on a smart phone before the visit. The responses would then ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael Bidu, MBA
December 2017
... and Interface Health (https://interfacehealth.com).[ 9 ] (This last example is the community and platform for ... control over their personal health.”[ 13 ] So, why do 9 out of 10 Canadians want to use digital health products and ... digital health products before selecting 12 to profile (9 from BC and 3 from Ontario): • Brain Power Score, an app ...
Premise /
BY: Andrew Kotaska, MD
December 2017
... which considered the case of Mr Zeliotis having to wait 9 months for a publicly funded hip replacement although he ... three-month update than it was the three months before.[ 9 ] Our medical care system needs reform. Current wait lists ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Perminder Bains, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2017
... the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society.[ 9 ] He took on a variety of leadership roles in the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Rinette Badker, MSc
January/February 2017
... disorders, including depression and anxiety.[ 2,8,9 ] MBCT was developed specifically to treat individuals ... of life after participants completed MBSR programs.[ 9,12 ] The most recent meta-analysis also found a ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jennifer Goy, MD, MSc
January/February 2017
... high-risk features (e.g., blast count higher than 100 x 10 9 /L, CNS/respiratory symptoms, coagulopathy, suspected APL, ... of acute leukemia (e.g., blast count higher than 100 x 10 9 /L, febrile neutropenia, hypotension, clinical or ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Maya Ignaszewski, MD
January/February 2017
... gender, and stage of physical and emotional development.[ 9 ] It is known that the increased muscular strength ...
Letters /
BY: R.A. Rockerbie, PhD
January/February 2017
... proportion of THC-positives in Colorado occurred with a 21.9% decrease in the overall number of traffic fatalities. A ...