Letters /
BY: R.A. Bernat, MD
July / August 2001
... a practice in Vancouver and who is able to provide 24 hour/7 day service to their patients is welcome to apply for ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: A.J. Pollard MBBS, MRCPCH, PhD, DIC
January/February 2001
... occur cyclically in Africa and Asia every 5 to 15 years[ 7-9 ] and epidemics were observed in North America after the ... of patients do not have the typical non-blanching rash: 7% have no rash and in 13% of patients the rash is ...
Letters /
BY: Sandy Sanders, MD
November 2001
... 45 years, and I strongly support your idea [ BCMJ 2001;43(7): 378 ] that a step in the right direction for nurses to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: A. Jon Stoessl, MD, FRCPC
May 2001
... use is associated with fewer dyskinesias than levodopa [7,8] and, at least in the case of pramipexole, a lower ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: R.C. Offer, MD, FRCPC, FACR
October 2001
... after menopause has little impact on later fracture risk [ 7] because accelerated bone loss follows the ... fracture is at very high risk of new fractures (7% per year). Based on current efficacy data and a ... may eventually lead to weaker bone. Thus far, the 7-year data on alendronate are very reassuring, with ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Donald B. Calne, OC, DM
April 2001
... of slowly versus rapidly progressive parkinsonism.[ 7 ] With this background, it is perhaps better to employ the ...
Premise /
BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD
July / August 2001
... practitioners provided the MSOC for only 58.1% and 59.7% of all the patients they saw. In other words, almost half ... ACGs in BC ACGs have been extensively evaluated in the US [7] and are now considered the gold standard case-mix ... patients 790 451 Percentage of total patients 58.1% 59.7% Total MSP payments to all MDs for GP services for ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Marilyn L. Malone, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2001
... season, which resulted in 62 cases, 9 complications, and 7 deaths. The seven deaths all occurred in one facility. ... can occur even if vaccination rates are greater than 80%.[ 7 ] Antigenic drifts, shifts, and imperfect matching between ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: D.B. Clement, MD
December 2001
... free radical molecules interact with magnetic fields. [ 7] Research has been conducted using EMF in extra ... pain and strength loss secondary to muscle damage for 5 to 7 days. A randomized single-blind placebo-controlled ... 96 135 1.76 106.84 50.83 222.17 211.46 593.06 0.25 16.17 7.69 - - - 0.6237 0.0000 0.0001 - - - Table 2. The mean and ...
Letters /
BY: John E. Gray, MD
May 2001
... ( "Massage Therapy—A Review" [ BCMJ 2000;42(7):342-344]), as well as letters that were published in the ...