News /
BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS
June 2006
... and specialists. Targeted compensation increase is 8.7% over 4 years. The combined increases result in an increase ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jill Franklin, BA,
December 2006
... to people with brain injuries. A patient with Part 7 funding from ICBC (see below) will only be accepted in the ... when there is less than $5000 in that patient’s Part 7 account. Someone with an open tort claim can apply for the ... with mTBI, but some treatment may be covered under Part 7. Once a patient reports a mild traumatic brain injury to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Dr J. Mark Ansermino, FFA, MMed, MSc, FRCPC
September 2006
... error reduction is fundamentally an information problem. [7] Failure to convey information about patients can ...
News /
BY: Sarah Gilgoff, BSc,
April 2006
... Prince George—Prince George Regional Tues., 6 June Wed., 7 June —Sandie Braid, CEBS BCMA Benefits Department ... (3%, 2%, 2%, 3%), and targeted compensation increases of 8.7% over 4 years. These combined increases result in an ...
News
December 2006
... (they might want to buy the book as well). —DRR On 7 November 2006 Dr Vincent Lam was named the 2006 Giller ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
July/August 2006
... and convalescent serum 10 to 14 days later. Serum (7 to 10 mL) should be collected in a pink- or gold-top tube ... with BCCDC lab requisition #1806. • Acute plasma (7 to 10 mL) collected in a purple-top EDTA tube and submitted ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Areta B. Wong, BSc,
March 2006
... because of other causes (10%), intracranial hemorrhage (7%), and hypertension (4%). Hemorrhage: Ten maternal deaths ... Mortality and Severe Morbidity in Canada for 1997–2000, [7] BC has a greater proportion of maternal deaths ... compared with that of Canada (6 per 100 000 live births). [7] The causes of maternal mortality in BC and Canada7 were ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Kevin W. Johns, BSc
October 2006
... ascertaining the efficacy of other diagnostic tests. [6,7] Numerous studies have documented the correlation of ACR ... [10] was based on patients with an average AER of 55.7±18.2 mg/24 hours and an ACR of 4.46±1.28 mg/mmol—values ... excretion was not within the lab’s reference range of 7.1 to 17.7 mmol/day. The ACR was then measured against the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Amy C. MacArthur, MHSc
June 2006
... indicated from studies of high-risk populations. [5-7,9,16-19] The poor response to our survey itself may ... 10 (76.9) 3 (25.0) 9 (75.0) Gender Male Female 7 (30.4) 16 (69.6) 4 (30.8) 9 (69.2) 4 (33.3) 8 (66.7) Education level ≤ High school > High school 12 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Bruce C. Carleton, PharmD,
September 2006
... [6] and cardiovascular diseases ($199 billion). [7] The safety of medication use is an international concern ... were classed as serious. The majority of reports (59.7%) originated from the manufacturers, 35.3% came from ... all serious and life-threatening adverse events, while 60.7% of institutions cited serious and life-threatening ADRs to ...