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Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC May 2016
... impacts on both treatment outcomes and PROMs scores.[ 1-3 ] All these factors are now measurable and so should be ... units with dissimilar patient catchment populations.[ 1 ] PROMs instruments were designed to compare the ...
Premise / BY: A.W. Battison, MD June 2016
... Columbia are general practitioners and family physicians.[ 1 ] Recent studies have shown that only 3% of rural emergency ... Residency program based in Kelowna includes a mandatory 1-month rotation in trauma, which may be completed in Canada ... Note that applications should be submitted a minimum of 1 year prior to planned commencement of a rotation. The ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Smith, BFA January/February 2016
... on public health and has reported that more than 1.2 million people are fatally injured every year.[ 1 ] Although Canada has among the lowest fatality rates in ... was observed overall during the study period ( Figure 1 ), with peaks in 2005 and 2008. After 2008, rates declined ...
Letters / BY: Meena Dawar, MD, MHSc, FRCPC April 2016
... In this regard, we produce immunization updates regularly[ 1 ] with administration advice based on provincial guidance.[ ...
News / BY: Julie Kwan, BBA, CFP, CLU, GBA May 2016
... the way life insurance policies are taxed. Effective 1 January 2017 new rules come into effect regarding the ... that permanent insurance offers will still exist after 1 January 2017. Even under the new rules, life insurance ... insurance policy it will be considered issued before 1 January 2017. Assuming you do not change it in any material ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ivana Jakovljevic, MD October 2016
... experiencing a mental health disorder at any given time.[ 1 ] Mental health problems in childhood and adolescence have ... such as depression, anxiety, and poor coping skills.[ 1 , 8 , 9 ] Furthermore, experts in the field have recently ... social isolation, marginalization, and violence.[ 1 ] The mechanism that allows poverty to directly affect the ...
Letters / BY: Owen D. Williamson, MBBC, FRSCS, FFPMANZCA September 2016
... for Misuse/Diversion as a legally enforceable policy on 1 June 2016. The standard extends the US Centers for Disease ...
Letters / BY: Michael M. O’Brien December 2016
... number of doctors in the province then (no orphans) was 1 for every 800 in the population, and now (a lot of orphans—200 000 with no FPs) is 1 for fewer than every 400. Doctors literally fought over ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jaclyn R. Farquhar, MD July/August 2016
... rate, mirroring trends seen throughout the world.[ 1 , 2 ] The World Health Organization defines an overweight ... 2010, more than double the average increase across Canada (1.7%).[ 4 ] Statistics Canada estimates that in 2011–12 one ... local anesthesia; and patients with a BMI higher than 38.1 should have surgery only “under extraordinary ...
News / BY: BCMJ Editorial Board September 2016
... Board’s newest member. Dr Chahal joined the Board on 1 July 2016. Born in Kamloops, Dr Chahal completed her BSc in ...