Letters /
BY: Jeff Purkis, MD
March 2001
... problem is really quite straightforward. My day starts at 7:30 a.m. and usually ends at 7 p.m. I see a few hospital patients (usually total care) ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael R. McKenzie, MD, FRCPC
December 2001
... Medical) [ 6] or from a linear accelerator (linac), [ 7] like the one used to administer stereotactic ... Radiation Therapy Disposition Conference (as of 7 March 2001) Diagnosis Acoustic neuroma Other cranial ... Number of patients 47 32 29 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 125 16 14 7 5 2 1 1 1 47 A review of the clinical indications for the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Stuart Fine, MB, FRCPC
June 2001
... adherence with methylphenidate was shown in one study [7] where 20% of families stopped taking the medication ... at the time of the interview; and on a scale of 1 to 7 (where 1 is poor and 7 is excellent) how they would rate the experience of being ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG
November 2001
... cycles of 3-days-on therapy and 3-days-off therapy. [ 7] • Twice-weekly administration of medroxyprogesterone ... tablets) 0.625 mg (estrogen) 2.5 mg (progestin) $7.49 Postmenopausal women wishing to use hormone replacement ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Chong S. Lee, MD, FRCPC
May 2001
... who have a good therapeutic response to levodopa. [7] Patients with Parkinson-plus syndromes have a poorer ... treatment, increasing about 10% per year during the first 7 years. On the other hand, it has been shown that the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Joseph Noone, MD, LRCP&SI, FRCPC
September 2001
... for use before, during, and after a violent act. 7. Debriefing and quality improvement Debriefing as a tool ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Benjamin C.L. Lai, MD, MSc
April 2001
... that PD incidence in African-American men and women [ 7 ] and in Asian-American men [ 8 ] was similar to rates for ...
Letters /
BY: A. Krisman, MD
December 2001
... JAW’s editorial ( “Rejuvenated image,” BCMJ 43(7):378 ) which suggests that if nurses resumed the wearing of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Teresa Marie Kope, MD, FRCPC
June 2001
... programs are that they are offered early and intensively. [7] Thus, when a parent approaches a physician with a ... common enough in autism to be diagnostic at a young age. [7,12] Thus, to identify autism in very young children, and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Karen A. Gelmon, MD, FRCPC
November 2001
... in six meta-analyses and a large pooled analysis. [ 7-11] All the meta-analyses have concluded that women who ... and Bowel Project prevention study as a greater than 1.7% risk of developing breast cancer over 5 years, but this ... 19 30 30 30 30 0.4% 0.9% 1.5% 1.6% 1.8% 3.4% 2.3% 3.4% 6.7% 16.4% 19.9% 21.6% 23.2% 25.2% 20.1% 16.6% Epidemiologic ...