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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 ...