News /
BY: Sara Gilbert,
December 2012
... of medication errors occur at the interfaces of care.[ 2 ] Research has shown that approximately 50% of patients ...
Letters /
BY: Devon Christie, MD,
March 2012
... resident in 2009, and as a family physician guest at the 2-day Life Program in September 2010. InspireHealth’s ... medicine”[ 1 ] while 85% with advanced cancer use CAM.[ 2 ] InspireHealth endeavors to validate patients’ values ...
News
June 2012
... in Canada, shows that Canadians wait an average of 2 years for access to new drugs due to delays in both the ...
Editorials /
BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD
October 2012
... in many areas I had become unconsciously dyscompetent.[ 2 , 3 ] In other words, I did not know how much I did not ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Annika Klopp, BSc,
April 2012
... of health as defined by Aboriginal peoples.”[ 2 ] Despite having some background knowledge about Carrier ...
Letters /
BY: Michael J. Passmore, MD,
July/August 2012
... such as pain can alleviate behavioral disturbances.[ 2 ] While worthy of consideration, nonmedication management ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Robert Strang MD, FRCPC
December 2012
... completed jointly by the WHO Health in Prisons Programme[ 2 ] and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime resulted ... systems worldwide, the proportion of women varies between 2% and 9%, with a median of 4.3% in 2006.[ 5 ] Prisons have ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michelle Horn, BA,
March 2012
... that this increase is not limited to adult patients.[ 2-5 ] In British Columbia between 1996 and 2010, a 4.5-fold ... 1. Ensure the appropriate psychiatric diagnosis is made. 2. Consider target symptoms, approved indications, and ... . 2. Consider symptoms, indications, and functional impairment ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC
June 2012
... drug deaths (IDD),[ 1 ] opiates were found in 60%,[ 2 ] and an additional 74 deaths were in persons prescribed ... Society. However, overdose deaths occur throughout BC.[ 2 ] People who use drugs have requested training and access ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Janet Friesen, MD, CIME,
September 2012
... container and a bulkhead. She was trapped and hypoxic for 2 minutes. Initially, the worker was intubated. She had no ...