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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi September 2018
... are currently 564 000 Canadians living with dementia,[ 1 ] and 25 000 new cases are diagnosed every year.[ 1 ] A diagnosis of dementia, known as “the disease of a ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Nancy Falconer, September 2018
... and enhances care provider satisfaction and retention.[ 1-3 ] But how can providers realistically create a more ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2018
... 69, and 14% to 29% of cases in people 70 years and older.[ 1 ] Zoster and its attendant complications are preventable by ... in those aged 70 and older (median follow-up time: 3.1 years), and 66.5% against post-herpetic neuralgia ... lipid A from Salmonella minnesota combined with 1 mg of dioleoyl phosphatidylcholine (DOPC) and 0.25 mg ...
Obituaries / BY: Murray Peglar September 2018
... local Langley Rugby boys play, and meeting with “table 1” at the Murrayville Pub for Monday Night Football. He was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rebecca Sugar, MD October 2018
... day surgery compared with approximately 65% in 2001.[ 1 , 2 ] Previously, when patients had longer hospital stays, ... tracking process called the red dot initiative ( Figure 1 ). A second round of more detailed data collection using ... during the study period, allowing us to estimate that 15.1% (138/915) of patients receiving surgery at the site made ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Caddy, MD October 2018
... with fentanyl compared with 667 the year before.[ 1 ] In April 2016 the sharply rising number of deaths related ... of buprenorphine and naloxone combined at a ratio of 4:1 and administered sublingually. This made it legal for any ... The resource includes induction algorithms for Day 1 and Day 2, advice on gauging withdrawal severity using the ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... duplicated forms. How did we get here and what can we do? 1.    Recognize that the health care system and the people ...
Letters / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD October 2018
... the article about early Canadian ships’ surgeons [1959;1:103-116]. The lengthy story was written by one of the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC October 2018
... Evidence shows harm reduction is a pragmatic, safe,[ 1 ] cost-effective,[ 2 ] and lifesaving[ 3 ] response to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Peter Thorpe, PGDip October 2018
... clinically recognized chain of survival ( Figure 1 ), increasing the chances of immediate CPR and rapid ... delays or changes in how paramedics are dispatched after 9-1-1 calls are received ( Figure 2 ). How the app works Smart ...