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News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2008
... first premium deduction for the new policy year.  • 5 August 2008: First premium deduction for the 2008/09 policy ... standard premium rates for the 2008/09 policy year. • 5 October 2008: Deadline to terminate Annual Plan coverage.  ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Fawziah Marra, PharmD December 2008
... in British Columbia has slowly declined from 18.5 to 16.8 defined daily doses per 1000 in­habitant-days ... agents such as penicillins has plateaued over the last 5 years; tetracyclines and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole use ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Al Talag, MD, March 2008
... and the dynamic expiratory compression of these airways.[ 5 , 6 ] Other factors such as respiratory muscle ... loops with the baseline maximal flow-volume loop ( Figure 5 ). CPET can assist with patient selection for pulmonary ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2008
... my wallet before I forgot where I had put the darn thing (5 minutes ago). About a nanosecond later I decided to start ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Frank Ervin, MD, FRCPC, April 2008
... had mild to moderate COPD and were followed for 14.5 years. Of 5887 patients, 731 died. The most frequent causes ... 2 ]  A trial of the index followed 625 patients over a 5-year period during which 162 (26%) died. Survivors averaged ... members of the BODE cohort were, only 26% died during the 5-year trial. Most patients survived for several years. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anne R. Synnes, MDCM, FRCPC, MHSc, November 2008
... and routine practice, performed in 88% of deliveries.[ 5 ],[ 9 ] Since GA is determined more accurately than fetal ... and live births) to only live births to NICU admissions.[ 5 ]  The BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre is the ... at the threshold of viability are summarized in  Table 5 . The most re­cent Canadian statement was released in 1994 ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2008
... I was booked for a bilateral inguinal her­niorrhaphy in 5 days.  I had waited a fair amount of time for the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey M. Pike, MD, MPH, FRCSC July/August 2008
... physicians per 100000 people in British Columbia,[ 5 ] less than 1% of family practice physicians in BC will ... in the office ( Figure 3 ). Lesions that are larger than 5 cm in any dimension, deep to the deep fascia, or that are ... In addition, superficial lesions that are smaller than 5 cm in any dimension but are adherent to the deep fascia or ...
Premise / BY: Benedikt Fischer, PhD, April 2008
... population of 1500 to 2000 injection drug users (IDUs).[ 5 ] This population is characterized by several key high-risk ... prevalence rate of 15.4% and an HCV prevalence rate of 68.5% among Victoria IDUs—rates substantially higher than for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan A. Hoag, BSc, October 2008
... and physical examination has a sensitivity of 90.4%.[ 5 ] Prostate cancer screening has resulted in earlier ... screening practices.  Of physicians aged 56 and older, 38.5% reported that guidelines do not influence their screening ... PSA testing and DRE should be used in combination, only 59.5% are using them together as their initial screening tool.  ...