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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc January/February 2003
... 3 million reports used to detect early safety signals. [4] New initiatives to enhance our drug safety system include ...
Clinical Articles / BY: N. Miller, BSc/BPHE November 2003
... a Kangoo Jumps group (designated KG; n = 12; age 25.4 ± 5.3 years; weight 67.4 ± 18.0 kg) and a group using normal running shoes (designated NG; n = 13; age 28.8 ± 4.7 years; weight 75.1 ± 25.2 kg). Both groups completed the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN June 2003
... program is planned. Infants will be immunized at 2, 4, 6, and 18 months of age.  • Meningococcal C conjugate ...
Editorials / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... local recurrence rates are about 16%, [1]  compared to 4% to 8% in trials using preoperative adjuvant radiation and ... the surgical technique total mesorectal excision (TME). [2-4]  The Netherlands, [2]  Sweden, [3]  and Norway [4]  have all achieved marked reduction in local recurrence ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
... over-reliance on emergency rooms and costly acute care. [3,4] Locally, the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British ... infections is crippling to inner city hospitals. [3,4]  At St. Paul’s Hospital, for instance, approximately ...
Letters / BY: Erik T. Paterson, MD December 2003
... ratio ought to be 1000:1, which leaves Creston short 4.5 FTE family doctors (plus we have one very part-time ...
Letters / BY: Terence W. Anderson BM, BCh, FRCPC, PhD July/August 2003
... article on life expectancy in the elderly [ BCMJ 2003;45(4):178-182 ]. (Back in the 1960s I was medical editor of  ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2003
... risen from 7.5% in 1990 to 9% in 1993 and 12.3% in 1999. [4]  Reitz [1]  advocated improvements in the awareness of ... psychotherapy. In addition to the treatments received, 32.4% were referred to other services. Among those, 21.7% of ... females than males were lost in follow-up (39.2% vs 25.4%) (chi-square=8.3,  P <.05). However, significantly more ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Rezmovitz, MSc November 2003
... of people older than 80 fall at least once per year. [1-4]  Research indicates that the decrease in functional ... balance has been identified as a risk factor for falling, [4,16]  and that balance relies on three main inputs: visual, ... A Eyes open, 1.0 psi  B Eyes open, 2.5 psi  C Eyes open, 4.0 psi  D Eyes closed, 1.0 psi  E Eyes closed, 2.5 psi  F ...
Letters / BY: Tom Pickles, MD, FRCPC June 2003
... had made the wrong decision. A second, more recent study [4]  looked at the impact on quality of life of both forms of ...