Editorials /
BY: Brian Day, MB
January/February 2018
... and I support their application where applicable.[ 1-2 ] I favor properly designed trials and objective studies ... made to determine significance. A P value below 0.05 (1 in 20), implies statistical significance. This is a ...
Letters /
BY: Alexandra Choi, MD, MHSc, CCFP
January/February 2018
... of 1013 British Columbians due to the opioid crisis.[ 1 ] Though considerable progress has been made through ...
Letters /
BY: Sandra Seo Young Kim, BSc
January/February 2018
... of hospital stay, reduced admissions, and harm reduction.[ 1,2 ] To implement the interprofessional care model ...
Letters /
BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD
January/February 2018
... The Medicare Protection Act, Section 17, Subsection 1(b) states: “A person must not charge a beneficiary for ...
Letters /
BY: Stuart Kreisman, MD
January/February 2018
... have complete smoke-free policies by July 2018.[ 1 ] On a personal level, getting the 75% strata vote needed ...
Letters /
BY: Sarah Fraser, BSc
January/February 2018
... to treatment, recovery, and associated outcomes.[ 1-3 ] The association of a patient’s mindset with their ... and neck cancer, and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).[ 1,2 ] Importantly, it has been suggested that perception may ...
Letters /
BY: Melissa Carr, DrTCM, BSc
January/February 2018
... common cause of liver injury. Period. Full stop.”[ 1 ] Every year there are about 4500 hospitalizations in ...
Letters /
BY: Trana Hussaini, PharmD
January/February 2018
... Health Canada from providing any safety or efficacy data.[ 1 ] The Natural Health Products (NHPs) Regulations were then ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Justin Burton, MSc, UBC Medicine, Class of 2018
January/February 2018
... advocacy that permeated the daily work at the hospital.[ 1 ] Interdisciplinary teamwork Each day began at 6:00 a.m. ... how to better deliver care to rural Peruvians having spent 1 month in a single location. However, given that many of the ...
News /
BY: Yvonne Sin, MD
January/February 2018
... Scholtens, MD. Brindle & Glass Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1-927366-68-4. 224 pages. Your Heart Is the Size of Your ...