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Clinical Articles / BY: Charmaine Kim-Sing, MD, ChB, FRCPC October 2004
... from performing the surgery earlier rather than later. [8,9]  All women considering prophylactic surgery are ... cancer before the age of 80 was recently estimated at 6.9%. This is 80 to 100 times higher than the risk in the ...
Letters / BY: Donald J. Young, MD January/February 2004
In a recent editorial piece (BCMJ 2003;45[9]:427) Dr Brian Day suggests that competition among ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martin Pusic, MD June 2004
... of blood from a patient. The result, a low potassium of 2.9 mmol/L, is entered into the laboratory information system. ... module (MLM) would extract the fact “potassium is 2.9” and search out rules applicable to this fact, one of ... to decrease inappropriate X-ray orders by as much as 47%. [9] Similar CPOE systems can be successful in a wide variety ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... by Chinese and other Asians, and by Caucasians as well. [9] Allergic and adverse reactions have been reported in both ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joan Fujiwara, MD April 2004
... completely without changes indicative of sexual assault. [9-11] Complete and careful examination of the hymen in the ... of injury, permitting penile penetration without tearing. [9,13]  Partial tears of the hymen may appear as clefts or ... test in 2 weeks and follow-up STD tests if necessary. [9] At the conclusion of the examination, the findings should ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... for 62.1% of the total and female practitioners for 37.9%. The median age of respondents was 45 years, with an age ... the health care system. More than half of respondents (57.9%) said that they had a copy of the Canadian STD Guidelines ... Canadian STD Guidelines. Have a copy of the guidelines 57.9% Rate the guidelines “very important” or ...
Letters / BY: Tony Dowell, FRCSC January/February 2004
... in his editorial “Red wine no paradox” ( BCMJ 2003;45[9]:430 ). As well as the antioxidant substances in red wine ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Bigham, MD June 2004
... [6-8]  Most WNV infections are not clinically recognized [9]  and infectious blood donors may therefore inadvertently ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M.C. Ashe, MSc December 2004
... rates of intervention following these sentinel events. [8,9]  A recent study by Hajcsar and colleagues found that more ... from a retrospective review of a large database that only 9.8% of the women and 2.9% of the men were screened for osteoporosis. Here in British ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nita Jain, MD, FRCPC April 2004
... transmission among children younger than 3 years of age. [9]  Perinatal vertical transmission is well documented and ... the appearance of visibly detectable genital warts. [5,9]  Autoinoculation and heteroinoculation can also occur. ... Most lesions resolve spontaneously within 6 to 9 months. An investigation for sexual abuse is only warranted ...