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Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC March 2000
... within facilities, placing vulnerable patients at risk.[ 7 ] A Canada-wide survey of long-term care facilities in 1990 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP November 2000
... a family physician’s work easier and more rewarding.[ 5,7 ] The association between increasing percentage of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... with a bat, and in only one or two was a bite reported.[ 7 ] Changing recommendations around bat encounters Recent ... unless prompt laboratory testing has ruled out rabies.[ 7 ] This includes cases in which a person may not be aware ... child, or a mentally disabled or intoxicated person.[ 7 ]  What to do following a bat encounter In all instances ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alex Agranovich, MD, FRCPC April 2000
... of response of rectal cancer to radiotherapy: it took 6 to 7 months to achieve complete regression. Intracavitary ... uncertain. A trial is proposed to answer this question.[ 7 ] Preoperative radiotherapy for unresectable tumors For ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stephen G.F. Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2000
... of hepatic failure secondary to the metastatic disease.[ 7,8 ] Hepatic radiation is very toxic and not normally ...
Clinical Articles / BY: H. Grant Stiver MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... of each. Amantadine reduces illness rates by 75% to 90%.[ 7 ] Side effects are mainly an “amphetamine-like” effect ... and other gastrointestinal complaints and were mild (7% with placebo versus 9.7% at a once daily dose and 12.7% at a twice daily dose).[ 9 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2000
... in rural communities have not yet worked.[ 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 ] Review of the literature reveals that the problem of ... in the former group ( 17 ) than in the latter group ( 7 ). As expected, there has been a steady overall increase in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Iain G.M. Cleator, MB, CHB, FRCSC, FRCSE, FRCS, FACS April 2000
... adenomatous polyposis, and inflammatory bowel disease.[ 7 ] The risk for close relatives of patients with CRC is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Gregory Hislop, MDCM December 2000
... and 12.3 for Chinese people in Los Angeles as compared to 7.2 for non-Hispanic white people in Los Angeles.[ 3 ] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... 4 hours, and abrupt onset is characteristic of illness.[ 7 ] Influenza-like illness (ILI) typically consists of upper ... elderly and very young, in whom it may not be present.[ 7 ] Acute illness generally lasts 3 to 4 days but cough, ... persist for 1 to 2 weeks after the fever has resolved.[ 7 ] For the purpose of surveillance in long-term care ...