Letters /
BY: Alison Wallace, MD
November 2012
... funding has decreased significantly over the past 5 years and funds have been directed toward businesses and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Andrew J. Juren, MD,
May 2012
... 1950s 80% of middle-aged men in the UK smoked and only 0.5% said they had never touched a cigarette. The Second World ... of men dying before age 70 dropping from 20% in 1970 to 5% in 2005, the year of Doll’s own death. Doll’s ... thrombosis was directly related to the amount smoked.[ 5 ] Doll sent follow-up questionnaires to the surviving ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
September 2012
... or incompletely vaccinated. Uptake has increased by about 5% each year, and in year 3 of the program HPV coverage was ... consistent with events reported in clinical trials.[ 5 , 6 ] Results from a study of quadrivalent vaccine safety ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC
March 2012
... benefit from objective evaluation and self-criticisms.[ 5 ] Practice audit The design and outcome of a simple medical ... circumstances (again asthma) previously. One patient (0.5% overall; 2.0% of patients who received an antibiotic ...
Letters /
BY: Leah Caldwell,
June 2012
... bcma.org. The survey is brief and should take only 3 to 5 minute to complete. We thank Coast Hotels for providing the ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Katie Wiskar, MD, FRCPC
October 2012
... time between 2009 and 2010, falling from 48% to 43%.[ 5 ] Studies with both American and Canadian physicians show a ... 6 hours per night, with one in five sleeping less than 5 hours.[ 18 ] To address this, limits on resident duty ... (either their own GP or a walk-in clinic) in the past 5 years.[ 26 ] Researchers in many countries including ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD
April 2012
... patients • Be brief, as conversations as short as 5 minutes can have an impact on patient behavior.[ 4 ] ... for disordered eating (see the SCOFF Questionnaire box).[ 5 ] Disordered eating attitudes and behaviors are ...
Letters /
BY: Peter Coy, MB,
July/August 2012
... school and where the rates, although dropping, are still 5% higher than children’s rates for each age cohort. That ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Craig Martin, MD,
December 2012
... registry suggests less than 18% of patients survive beyond 5 years after diagnosis. An early detection tool might ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
January/February 2012
... came with the same preset combination that only about 5% of people had changed. He also discovered a hole in the ...