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Letters / BY: Michelle Scheepers, MBCHB, FRCPC, MBA December 2024
... as key contributors to the anesthesia care team.[ 1 ] The use of a team-based model of anesthesia care is ... showed that BC is an outlier with regard to governance.[ 1 ] The primary recommendation from the review was a call for ... needed to address growing surgical volumes and backlogs.[ 1 ] Additional authors have highlighted the opportunity ...
News March 2024
... and other allergens. Patients took these doses daily for 1–2 years. While most patients had mild symptoms during the ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2024
... emergency department visits per year in British Columbia.[ 1 ] The overwhelming majority of these harms can be ... carries an estimated cost of $492 million per year in BC;[ 1 ] the human cost of lives lost and altered cannot be ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2024
... women, with one in eight diagnosed within their lifetime.[ 1 ] Despite stable or decreasing age-standardized incidence, ... Breast Health Action Plan developed in BC in 2010 [ Figure 1 ] .[ 5 ] The interdisciplinary nature of breast cancer care ... the benchmark standards we used in our comparisons [ Table 1 ] . Objective Our objective was to quantify wait times ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Vivek Gill, BHSc November 2024
... gestational age or birth weight of 500 grams or more.[ 1 ] In 2022, 3169 people experienced a stillbirth in Canada, ... the design of the project’s visual identity [ Figure 1 ] , a relational approach to recruitment, cultural and ... people in four individual and group-based activities: (1) reflection journaling, (2) a comfort map, (3) a personal ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sarah B. Henderson, PhD April 2024
... matter (PM 2.5 ), all of which can affect health.[ 1 ] However, concentrations of PM 2.5 are typically used as a ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Alexander R. Hemy, MD October 2024
... characterized by abdominal pain and altered bowel habits.[ 1 ] Approximately 4.1% of adults globally are affected by the disorder, based on ... and health care burden.[ 4 , 5 ] Clinical cases Case 1 Patient 1 is a 35-year-old woman who has had ongoing ...
Premise / BY: Martina Scholtens, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2024
... named Bagster prescribes books for various afflictions.[ 1 ] However, the “reading cure” was in use a century ... reported a mean effect size of 0.82 (95% CI, 0.50-1.15) for six studies comparing cognitive-behavioral therapy ... dementia, and child and adolescent mental health [ Figure 1 ] . Each illness category was divided into nonfiction and ...
Letters / BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP May 2024
... we order are unnecessary and 10% of them are harmful.[ 1 ] Current approaches designed to address this issue ...
Editorials / BY: Sepehr Khorasani, MD, MSc, FRCSC July/August 2024
... in any occupation is to become interested in it.”[ 1 ] The problem is that many anorectal pathologies can have ... to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.”[ 1 ] It has been said that surgeons are not always the most ... the eye to see … and the finger to feel takes time.”[ 1 ] As you reach the end of history taking, you are itching ...