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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... 976 people died in alcohol-related crashes in Canada.[ 2 ] Canada lags far behind comparable democracies in reducing ... in BC. Of these, 152 (38.5%) were alcohol related.[ 2 ] The BC road fatality rate in 2009 (8.1 per 100000 ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB June 2012
... that (apologetically) offer consultation appointments in 2, 3, and even 4 years. Yet newly trained orthopaedic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nadia A. Khan, MSc, MD October 2012
... treatment goal is a pressure level of less than 90 mm Hg.[ 2 ]  Data from the Hypertension Optimal Treatment (HOT) ... BP target by randomly assigning 4733 patients with type 2 diabetes to either an intensive BP-lowering group with a ... stroke, and death from cardiovascular causes (1.87% vs 2.09%; HR 0.88; 95% CI 0.73–1.06).[ 9 ] Intensive treatment ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2012
... it helps set the right tone for mental health treatment. 2. When going through the PHQ-9 assessment, have your ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM July/August 2012
... with an estimated annual incidence of 12 million cases.[ 2 ] In British Columbia, syphilis infection rates are higher ... symptoms mimicking many other diseases may appear about 2 to 6 weeks later. The second stage (also known as secondary syphilis), if untreated, resolves within 2 to 6 weeks or the infection could go on to the third stage ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD November 2012
... “Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice,”[ 2 ] University of California Berkeley researchers Chris ...
News January/February 2012
... (10029) for Rotarix (oral rotavirus immunization given at 2 and 4 months) is available ( see the article on page 42 ). ...
Letters / BY: Mark Fok, MD, FRCPC May 2012
... for general prac­titioners” [ BCMJ  2012;54:75-8 2] with great interest and applaud the efforts of Ms Horn and ... of a short duration ranging from 24 hours to 12 weeks.[ 2 ]  This comes at the cost of an increased risk of ...
Letters / BY: Mark F. Masterson, MD, MSc, FRCPC, September 2012
... medical education (DME) in the last dec­ade.[ 1 , 2 ] In response, the Professional Association of Residents of ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME March 2012
... return to work for open and laparoscopic repairs were 27.2 and 11.7 days, respectively. This information was shared ...