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Letters / BY: Jim Busser, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, January/February 2013
... 37 directors costing the membership annually more than $1.2 million. It has not confronted its failure to foster ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... with chronic obstruc­tive pulmonary disease (COPD),[ 1-4 ] and more trials are currently underway.[ 5 ] There is ... established by the health authority.  Approximately 1 month after setup, patients are contacted by the health ... ambulatory oxygen, patients must be able to walk more than 1 minute. In accordance with the criteria in effect since ...
News July/August 2013
... submitted, with a retroactive date of service as early as 1 April 2013, by a locum providing coverage for a physician ... information: PHN#: 975 303 5697  Date of birth: 1 January 2013 Patient Surname: Participation  First name: ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Jeffrey Quon, DC, MHSc, PhD, FCCSC November 2013
... spinal manipulation has received international recognition.1 Compared with many other conventional therapies, ... evident during the first 6 months after treatment. At the 1-year mark following treatment, study groups experienced ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jean-François Kozak, PhD, March 2013
... religious orders and “poor homes” throughout Canada.[ 1 ] In BC, nursing homes or residential care facilities did ...
Letters / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC May 2013
... forward. The considerable potential for this relationship[ 1 ] will only be realized when there is transparency on the ...
News September 2013
... -16, or -18) decreased from 11.5% in 2003 to 2006 to 5.1% in 2007 to 2010, a decline of 56%. Among other age groups, ...
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 ...