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Letters / BY: Eric Smith, MD January/February 2004
... was 72.6 years and that of the hospitalists’ was 64.5 years. One can easily argue, on this basis alone, that the ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... practicality of HIV counseling guidelines used in Canada. [5] Research focusing on primary health care practitioners ... not having a copy of the CMA HIV testing guidelines. [5]  Studies from the early 1990s suggested that fewer than ... of Physicians and Surgeons family medicine membership (64.5% urban and 35.5% nonurban). The required sample size was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D.B. Clement, MD May 2004
... treatment with corticosteroids topically or by injection. [5]  Open or endoscopic surgery is reserved for cases where ... therapy that makes the risks of surgery unnecessary. [5,6] Extracorporeal shock wave therapy The use of externally ... follow-up the ESWT group dropped from 6.9 points to 1.5 points compared with 7.0 to 4.4 points in the placebo ...
Letters / BY: Peter Rees, PhD, FRCPC December 2004
... TREAD conference, was able to incorporate reference number 5 accessed in June 2004. Was it not possible for the authors ...
Letters / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... in the field of TB. Enhanced surveillance of children 5 years and under and individuals with risk factors for TB ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joan Fujiwara, MD April 2004
... adolescent is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. [5]  The youth can withdraw consent at any time, to any part ... and support a history of penetrating sexual abuse. [5]  Hymenal tissue can stretch, without signs of injury, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2004
... in British Columbia has slowly declined from 18.5 to 15.9 defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitant-days ...
Letters June 2004
... exemption certificates and elderly drivers. Section 220(5) of the Motor Vehicle Act permits a practitioner to sign a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC March 2004
... can result in significant intracranial injury or death. [3-5] Shaken baby syndrome occurs primarily in children younger ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC October 2004
... recent data indicate a mean blood mercury of 0.3 ppb (1.5 nmol/L) in children aged 1 to 5 and a mean of 1.2 ppb (6 nmol/L) in women aged 16 to 49. ... contained mercury at twice the Canadian guideline of 0.5 ppm. Investigation of exposure in the second case is still ...