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Clinical Articles / BY: Christine E. Jarchow, MSW March 2004
... than expected. Investigating child abuse In 1999–2000, British Columbia child welfare authorities completed 24 321 ... comprehensive centre is advisable.” Role of SCAN units British Columbia is home to four fully functioning Suspected ... child maltreatment, and that most physicians practising in British Columbia have some knowledge and training in the ...
Editorials / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD September 2004
... Bridges: A Call for a Coordinated Dementia Strategy in British Columbia. This paper played a significant role in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Bigham, MD June 2004
... by follow-up fax/letter. Since WNV is also reportable in British Columbia, the medical health officer in the donor’s ... Preventing transfusion-transmitted West Nile virus in British Columbia ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2004
...  The overall rate of antibiotic use among outpatients in British Columbia has slowly declined from 18.5 to 15.9 ... between 1996 and 2003. This means that on average, 1.6% of British Columbians are consuming antibiotics on any given ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: G. Butt, MHSc March 2004
... positive for hepatitis C (HCV) as identified through British Columbia’s Public Health Information System between ... Hill, PhD —B. Paterson, PhD —M. Krajden, MD, FRCP British Columbia Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Edna Durbach, Ed.D October 2004
... Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act in British Columbia. Translating legislation into hospital ... Mr David Flaherty, the first privacy commissioner of British Columbia and a noted expert on health information, to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc June 2004
... spread across North America in 2003, but did not enter British Columbia. The risk that the virus will move into BC ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M.C. Ashe, MSc December 2004
... 2.9% of the men were screened for osteoporosis. Here in British Columbia, a prospective controlled trial looking at ... to fragility fractures in urban and rural communities of British Columbia. Methods A questionnaire was designed to ... five-question survey was approved by the University of British Columbia ethics review committee and mailed to 501 ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2004
... Canada Health Act was borrowed from both of those bits of British Commonwealth constitutional legislation. However, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Charmaine Kim-Sing, MD, ChB, FRCPC October 2004
... diagnosed cancer in Canadian women. Each year in British Columbia, 2700 new cases of breast cancer will be ... be referred to the Hereditary Cancer Program (HCP) of the British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA) for genetic counseling. ... in the context of a clinical trial. [21,22]  Close to 100 British Columbia women have already entered this study. New ...