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Letters / BY: Stephen Shore, MD, CCFP March 2003
... family doctor, for being available or arranging 24-hour, 7-days-a-week coverage for my patients. Whereas there is ... for providing low- to moderate-risk care 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week or even an obstetrician/gynecologist for ... After almost 28 years of providing or arranging 24-hour, 7-days-a-week care for my patients, teaching for almost 20 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... Dutch 2 year TME plus pre-op radiation Stage 1 (n = 134) 7% 0.5% Stage 2 (n = 107) 16% 1.0% Stage 3 (n = 100) 27% 4.3% ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc January/February 2003
... Health Products Directorate of Health Canada, with $7 million in new funding for postmarketing surveillance in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M. Koehle, MD December 2003
... laboratory documentation of the patient’s condition. [7]   Table 1  lists restricted medications. The most common ... that has been controlled with the above strategies. [7]  Consequently, properly treated EIA does not hinder ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN June 2003
... 1 April 2003, with provision of both: • Pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine (Prevnar) to infants and children ... C conjugate vaccine program is estimated to prevent 7 to 15 cases of bacterial meningitis and two deaths each ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brian McGowan, MD October 2003
... 24% with the hospitalist program in place. More recently, 7-day recidivism rates were compared and the hospitalist ... society, which increasingly operates on a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week basis. The main driver is the need for ... practise hospital-based medicine. Taking charge of the 24/7, 365-days-a-year hospitalist program seemed a perfect fit. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
... ongoing HIV epidemics as a result of injection drug use, [7,8]  and overdose deaths are among the leading causes of ... in the Downtown Eastside’s district increased from $6.7 million in 1995 to $11.2 million in 2001, the drug problem ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J.H. van de Velde, MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCPS September 2003
... a cumulative risk of local recurrence at 5 years of 2.7% and overall corrected survival of 87.5% at 5 years. [7]  These excellent results were matched in Enker’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2003
... Mental Health Services by Chinese people has risen from 7.5% in 1990 to 9% in 1993 and 12.3% in 1999. [4]  Reitz [1] ... reported a single diagnosis. Co-morbidity was found in 19.7% (n=73). The majority (87.8%, n=325) of patients received ... 32.4% were referred to other services. Among those, 21.7% of them were referred to support groups and 19.2% were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC December 2003
... prevention such as the Therapeutics Initiative group [7]  argue that (a) the absolute risk reduction—which was ...