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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 ...