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Clinical Articles / BY: Elspeth M. McDougall, MD, FRCSC, MHPE, December 2015
... and ensuring the skill is being learned correctly.[ 2 ] This applies to technical skills such as suturing wounds ...
MDs To Be / BY: Csilla Egri, MSc, April 2015
... or swimming to Cuba to afford basic medical coverage.[ 2 ] These sensationalist stories attempt to highlight the ... service or the health care system is shown in  Table 2 . Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS version 20 ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Brad Fritz, MD September 2015
... the scope and standards of insured medical services.[ 2 ] Third, the association was opposed to the commission ... merits of the proposed law. It was defeated 622 to 13.[ 2 ] Opposition by the BCMA galvanized public sentiment ... the MSA’s initial expenses, with costs repaid in 1944.[ 2 ] In what proved to be a brilliant public relations move, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Naveed Z. Janjua, MBBS, DrPH January/February 2015
... 000 (0.66% to 1.3%) of Canadians are infected with HCV.[ 2 ] In British Columbia, approximately 80 000 people have ... 1, 60% to 70% for genotype 3, and 70% to 80% for genotype 2)[ 6 ] to new well-tolerated, short-course (8 to 12 weeks) ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS July/August 2015
... clinical decisions and fewer adverse events.[ 2 ] Literature search services for physicians are offered by ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2015
... are more likely to result in sustained practice change.[ 2 ] Teaching, mentoring, and coaching can be tailored to a ... practices and procedures before adopting related changes.[ 2 ] While participating in small-group learning sessions ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanzo A. Ho, BSc, April 2015
... preventable and treatable with effective early screening.[ 2 ] Current BC guidelines recommend average-risk patients ... undergo fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) every 1 to 2 years or a screening colonoscopy every 10 years. A positive ... Colonic and extracolonic findings ( Table 1  and  Table 2 ) were categorized according to the CT Colonography ...
Editorials / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC September 2015
... and the steps required to make a proper report.[ 1,2 ] As health care providers we bear witness to the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ryan R. Woods, PhD June 2015
... shift on the social system and broader economy.[ 2-6 ] From a health care perspective, an aging population ... of population screening, average rates for the past 2 years were estimated for each age group and used to project ... rates have been essentially flat over the past decade (-0.2% APC for males; 0.4% APC for females). Despite this, there ...
Premise / BY: T. Chan, MHsc, MD, October 2015
... 2004 Accord and Ten-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care[ 2 ] allotted $5.5 billion to the Wait Time Reduction Fund to ... waits were set to achieve "meaningful reductions."[ 2 ] Consequently, the surgical field was divided into have ... experience of other provinces suggests a range between $2 and $11 million.[ 9,10 ] Wait-time definitions are ...