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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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paula Braitstein, MA, MSc January/February 2004
... C virus (HCV) coinfection is an important problem in British Columbia. Up to 90% of HIV-infected injection drug ... individuals receiving antiretroviral treatment in British Columbia. [10]  The prevalence of chronic hepatitis ... be firmly established. Policy: HIV and transplantation in British Columbia The British Columbia Transplant Society ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... this study. The DTES has one of the highest rates of TB in British Columbia and struggles with the complex issues of ...
Back Page / BY: Malcolm Smillie November 2003
... to use for such an array of problems. A few years ago the British Medical Association defined boxing “as a contest in ...