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Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... cardiac complications during pregnancy is increasing.[ 1 ] This is a unique circumstance where management for ... in collaboration with BC Women’s Hospital ( Figure 1 ). The Cardiac Obstetric (COB) clinic, the first of its ... defects. The risk for parents without CVD is approximately 1%. The risk can be higher in parents with hereditary ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB March 2016
... In just 15 short years that number will escalate to 1.35 million seniors—nearly one-quarter of BC’s ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD May 2016
... attainable, realistic, and timely or trackable goals[ 1 ] for behavior change. The most successful SMART goals are ... services at HealthLink BC ( www.healthlinkbc.ca  or 8-1-1). •    MEND (mind, exercise, nutrition, do it) and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Hortense Tabien Nsoh, MD July/August 2016
... the first to demonstrate the utility of smoke forecasts[ 1 , 2 ] for public health protection, and the first to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2016
... to do so because of insufficient hospital resources.[ 1 ] Despite a current shortage and growing need for general surgeons because of an aging population,[ 1,2 ] 28.3% of Canadian graduates in general surgery are ... with recruitment are very relevant and topical.[ 1-3 ] The number of hours worked and the number of nights on ...
Letters / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2016
... Medical Health Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health, dated 1 September 2015, and the Vaccine Administration and Pain ... recognized to occur more frequently than was thought.[ 1 ] Indeed, inadvertent injury to the radial nerve continues ...
News May 2016
... associated with lower mortality of babies under 1 year old in high-income countries. To carry out their ... capita spending on health, researchers found that adding 1 month to the length of paid leave prevents about 8 infant ... the postneonatal period when babies range in age from 1 month to 1 year. Lead author, Arijit Nandi, is an assistant ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Gabriel, MD, MSc, CCFP October 2016
... barriers have been shown to result in health disparities,[ 1 , 2 ] with a wealth of evidence indicating that equity, ... centredness, and timeliness of care are all affected. [ 1 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] Ideally, every Canadian would receive ... suits in Canada demonstrate that this is a risk.[ 1 ] Economic arguments for interpretation show there is a ...
Letters / BY: Stephen D. Anderson, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... issues. A study of 2000 physicians published in 2007[ 1 ] indicated that most psychiatrists and nonpsychiatric ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD March 2016
... billing pattern, we suggest that you do the following: 1.    Review your use of the fees in question and the ...