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Letters / BY: Olivia L. Tseng, MD, PhD, CCFP, FCFP October 2024
... are at a higher risk of misdiagnosis and delayed care.[ 2 ] Increasing workload to adopt and use EHR Physicians and ... when EHR data are missing or unmeaningfully merged[ 2 , 4 ] and physicians are exhausted with administrative ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD March 2024
... fall of 2020 found burnout rates ranging from 51% to 68%.[ 2 , 3 ] Against this backdrop, we want to remind you that our ...
Premise / BY: Lauren Whitehead, MD, FRCSC June 2024
... findings, and testing also contribute to its diagnosis. [2] With this more inclusive definition, patients who require ... (for example, same-sex female couples), are addressed. [2] The impact of infertility stretches beyond the ability to ... While this news is exciting, a budget of $64 million over 2 years leaves many questions unanswered. In BC, we are in a ...
Letters / BY: Xi Yao Gui, MD September 2024
... centres, which can pose challenges when they do arise.[ 2 ] Continually participating in training programs to prepare ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Laura Gentile, RD, MHA December 2024
... 1 ] The 2020 incidence rate in BC was 8.1 in 100 000.[ 2 ] The World Health Organization has identified the ... precancer (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia [CIN] grade 2 or worse) and cancer. HPV screening has a one-time sensitivity for detecting CIN grade 2 or worse (CIN2+) of 96.1%, versus 53.0% for cytology,[ 5 ] ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Valerie C. Doyon, MD January/February 2024
... which risks underestimating the Breslow depth [ Figure 2 ]. According to clinical practice guidelines, incisional ... only in sensitive or cosmetically important areas.[ 1 , 2 , 4 , 5 ] However, the margins of the subsequent wide local ... near the guideline standard (e.g., < 0.1 mm margins or 2.0 cm re-excision margins), they were categorized as ...
Premise / BY: Nikhil Rajaram, MD, FCFP, MPH, FRCPC July/August 2024
... the Canadian Medical Association’s Driver’s Guide[ 2 ] when assessing patients’ fitness to perform ... training to meet standards for safety (such as CSA Z275.2 for occupational diving operations,[ 4 ] written by CSA ... should be making these determinations instead. Question #2: What should and shouldn’t be communicated to employers ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Alex Chan, PhD, MD, FRCSC October 2024
... patient satisfaction with primary and specialist care.[ 2 ] Increased wait times are also associated with longer ... triage and inclusion of conservative treatments.[ 2-4 ] These models report high professional satisfaction and ... Shared Orthopaedic Referral and Triage (SORT) project is a 2-year Shared Care Committee initiative facilitated by the ...
Letters / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD March 2024
... those suffering from mild to moderately bothersome pain.[ 2 ] Management of this complex condition adds to the burden ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kate Smolina, DPhil, CHE June 2024
... lifetime, up from 59% and 47%, respectively, in 2002/03.[ 2 ] The prevalence of multimorbidity—having two or more ... prevention and management. The Chronic Disease Dashboard[ 2 ] is a publicly available interactive data tool with ... the BC Chronic Disease Registries, with approximately 1 in 2 females and 1 in 3 males having a record for a related ...