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News December 2014
... helpful tips: 1. Be timely. Submit your claim immediately. 2. Be thorough. Provide as much information as possible ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Gary Mazowita, MD, January/February 2014
... specialties. Calls are returned within a maximum of 2 hours and often sooner, with over 75% of calls returned ... G10001 Specialist Telephone Advice, response within 2 hours: $60  •    G10002 Specialist Telephone Patient ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2014
... testing. Key recommendations are summarized in  Table 2 . Ova and parasite testing can lead to an overdiagnosis of ...
Obituaries / BY: Irwin Stewart, MD, October 2014
... were tied to being able to cover anesthesia for 2 nights per week, so I thanked God and anesthetists like Dr ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ryan Wilson, BSc, April 2014
... life-threatening, with an estimated incidence rate of 2.3 cases per 100 000 patients.[ 1,2 ] Despite recent advances in the investigation and ... of such abscesses, the mortality rate still ranges from 2% to 12%.[ 3,4 ] Amebic liver abscess is the most common ...
Obituaries / BY: Dorothy Woodhouse, MD, July/August 2014
Dr Ed McDonnell’s death on 2 February 2014 marked the passing of a gentleman who touched ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anna F. Lee, MDCM, PhD, FRCPC, December 2014
... to as "sudden unexplained death syndrome" (SUDS).[ 2 ] Where no cause of death is identified after a thorough ... referred to as "sudden arrhythmic death syndrome" (SADS).[ 2 ] Sudden death in infants under 1 year of age is referred to as "sudden death in infancy" (SUDI).[ 2 ] When the autopsy, scene investigation, and toxicology ...
Letters / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM January/February 2014
... solution (1 mg/mL) to Methadose, a 10 mg/mL solution.[ 1,2 ] Methadose has been available for purchase by pharmacies ...
News / BY: Dirk van Niekerk, MD, FRCPC May 2014
... done every year for the first 3 years, then continue every 2 years if results are normal.  Women should get regular Pap ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, October 2014
... 110 mg and 150 mg),[ 1 ] Rocket-AF (rivaroxaban),[ 2 ] Aristotle (apixaban),[ 3 ] and ENGAGE (edoxaban 30 mg and ... 83% of the INR values in the study were between 1.8 and 3.2. Sportif V was carried out in North America and ENGAGE was ... 2012). Similar discrepancies can be seen in  Table 2 , where the rates of hemorrhagic stroke in the warfarin ...