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Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC June 2018
... in the country. The average age of a first-time mother in BC is 30.8 years, according to Statistics Canada, compared ... significant move toward delayed childbearing. In 2015 the BC Vital Statistics Agency noted that the proportion of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ken Seethram, MD, FRCSC, FACOG June 2018
... positive rates for screening tests currently used in BC are presented in Table 1 .[ 27 ] Clinicians should be ... Insured and uninsured tests Currently, Perinatal Services BC focuses on the detection of open neural tube defects and ... tests are insured under MSP, as shown in Table 2 .  In BC there are also some private pay options for prenatal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Constantin Shuster, MD June 2018
... rate of 9.8%, which was the second highest among BC’s five regional health authorities and exceeded both ... highlight an opportunity to improve the performance of BC’s health system.  Why do readmissions matter? Unplanned ... believe that implementation of an HRRP-like policy in BC is unlikely, in part because global hospital budgets make ...
College Library / BY: Niki Baumann June 2018
... up, but where can this information be found quickly? In BC, we’re lucky to have the BC Cancer Agency’s Cancer Management Guidelines, where you ... .  The BC Cancer Agency also provides information written for the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sergei Likhodii, PhD, DCC, FCACB June 2018
The BC Provincial Toxicology Centre (PTC) performs extensive ... forensic toxicology testing and interpretation to the BC Coroners Service. Substance abuse is a serious problem ... practical workflows. —Sergei Likhodii, PhD, DCC, FCACB BC Centre for Disease Control Opioid crisis: Challenging ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey Roberts, MD, FRCSC May 2018
... Unfortunately, AMH testing is not an insured service in BC, costing approximately $70. In combination with patient ... to and during chemotherapy is presently used widely in BC. Since the first experiments with ovarian transplantation ... required. More work is needed to increase awareness in BC and to ensure that patients receive appropriate fertility ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2018
... 39, compared to 45.7 per 1000 women age 20 to 24.[ 15 ] In BC, the percentage of live births to women age 35 years and ... 20 ] A blood sample is required for an AMH assay, and in BC this test is not covered by provincial health insurance. ... tubal and pelvic disease cause 35% of infertility.[ 6 ] In BC the most readily available test for tubal patency is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC May 2018
... of LGV was first reported in Canada in 2003 and in BC in 2004. Over the past decade, LGV has become increasingly ... been 144 LGV cases (probable and confirmed) reported in BC ( Figure ). From 2004 to 2010, 2.7 LGV cases, on average, ... of LGV. In addition, since 2012, clinics operated by the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), some of which serve ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM May 2018
Beginning April 2018, BC and other Canadian provinces and territories will begin to ... (RV1, ROTARIX, GlaxoSmithKline), which has been used in BC since the program started in January 2012. This change is ... in 20 studies.[ 1 ] The main difference for the BC program will be the schedule of immunization: for RotaTeq, ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD May 2018
... on which articles would be of value and interest to BC physicians. The fact that the BCMJ  is celebrating its ... having to guarantee availability of service. While in BC we may feel that we are doing enough by collaborating with ...