Clinical Articles /
BY: Kathleen Eddy, BSc,
January/February 2013
... in British Columbia increased by approximately 50%.[ 1 ] While these numbers can only be truly understood in the ... rating scale for appropriateness shown in Table 1 . A subset of 325 requisitions representing all cases ... was done using the appropriateness scale shown in Table 1 as well as by a second scale derived from the Butler ...
News
March 2013
... and concluded that Ontario’s bill reaches almost $1.4 trillion, Quebec’s bill amounts to $768 billion, and ... gross clinical payments averaged $307482 in 2010–11, a 3.1% increase—the smallest in 5 years, according to a report ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Hans Krueger, PhD,
July/August 2013
... cervical cancer. Recent guidelines in the United States[ 1 ] and Ontario[ 2 ] recommend that screening start at age ... suggests four reasons for initiating screening at age 25: (1) the low incidence rates for cervical cancer in younger ... increasing to 9.86 cases for women at age 29 (see Figure 1 ). This results in an incidence rate of 1.35 per 100 000 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Chelsea Haines, RN, BScN,
November 2013
... has saved more lives than any other health intervention.[ 1 ] ImmunizeBC is committed to providing high-quality, ...
News
January/February 2013
... or call 604 875-2000 ext. 6501, toll free 1 866-502-2424. News Teenage girls needed for Canadian HPV ...
News
April 2013
... in the new fiscal year, projected to drop to less than 1.0% in the two subsequent years. Starting 1 January 2014, MSP premiums will increase 4%, meaning ...
Letters /
BY: Keith J. White, MD
September 2013
... Initiative ( www.bcma.org/polypharmacy-initiative ). Phase 1 of the polypharmacy initiative—prototyping in eight ...
News&Notes /
BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC
December 2013
... Canadians subscribed to a mobile phone service in 2012,[ 1 ] and that smart phone users in Canada increased from 33% ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Liza Kallstrom,
March 2013
... were very high. A large majority of GP participants (94.1%) also agreed that they had learned new things from the ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014,
June 2013
... be endocrine disruptors, and 25% could be carcinogenic.[ 1 ] Obviously these chemicals are of concern, and ...