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WorkSafeBC /
BY: Peter Rothfels, MD
June 2018
... patients, particularly those with chronic noncancer pain.[ 1 , 2 ] Opioid overprescription, improper risk assessment, ... Abbotsford/Chilliwack/Mission 19 October: Victoria 1 November: Courtenay/Comox/Campbell River 20 November: ... online at http://events.eply.com/chronicpain , or call 1 877 231-8765. Seating is limited. Sessions are tentatively ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD
June 2018
... health, attributing causality is much more challenging.[ 1 ] A recent meta-analysis revealed compelling evidence of ...
Editorials /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
June 2018
... with 30.5 years in Ontario and 25.4 years in Nunavut.[ 1 ] In 1991 the average age of a Canadian first-time mother ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ken Seethram, MD, FRCSC, FACOG
June 2018
... were discovered to be trisomy 21 almost 100 years later,[ 1 , 2 ] and confirmation that each cell normally contains 46 ... have a higher baseline risk of recurrence (approximately 1%) and should therefore be offered prenatal screening ... tests currently used in BC are presented in Table 1 .[ 27 ] Clinicians should be aware that the way these rates ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Daniel Shearer, BSc
June 2018
It is well known that women with type 1 or type 2 pregestational diabetes have an increased risk of ... and a nearly fourfold increase in perinatal death.[ 1 ] These increases in risk can be attributed primarily to ... adverse outcomes increase by approximately 5.5% for every 1.0% in HbA1c.[ 3 ] Comprehensive preconception care is ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Elizabeth Taylor, MD, FRCSC
June 2018
... has been reported to occur in 17% to 31% of pregnancies,[ 1 , 2 ] and is defined as a nonviable intrauterine pregnancy ... 12.4%, as well as an increase in term delivery rate from 1.4% to 74.4%.[ 9 ] Uterine fibroids and endometrial ... OR 3.90 for cohort studies (95% CI, 2.48-6.12); OR 1.80 for case-control studies (95% CI, 1.25-2.60).[ 12 ] ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Constantin Shuster, MD
June 2018
... a major focus of health care quality improvement efforts.[ 1 ] Subsequent recognition of wide regional variability in ... effort was made to improve hospital and community care.[ 1 , 2 ] A number of organizations in Canada, the United ... was significantly higher than the national average of 9.1% ( Figure 1 ).[ 5 ] The readmission rates in Saskatchewan ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Sergei Likhodii, PhD, DCC, FCACB
June 2018
... respiratory depression at very small doses.[ 1 ] Fentanyl and derivatives are now found in mixtures sold ... by as low as 0.001 atomic mass units (amu), compared to 1 amu for conventional instruments, and allows for detection ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jeffrey Roberts, MD, FRCSC
May 2018
... of the cancer itself, with overt PTSD seen in some cases.[ 1 ] Fertility preservation treatments can increase the ... with fertility, but do eventually want children.[ 1 ] Assuming that fertility preservation procedures are ...