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Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... published by the National Institutes of Health. [5]  Adjuvant postoperative radiation and chemotherapy were ... by anterior resection, 33% by abdominoperineal resection, 5% by Hartmann’s procedure, and 0.6% by proctocolectomy (in ... Local excision and polypectomy were each performed in 5% of rectal cancers. Abdominoperineal resection was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terry Curran, MD, FRCP March 2003
... products) or even bonds and varying amounts of cash (5% to 10%) for redemption purposes.  Equally difficult is ... plus capital appreciation if the building is held for 5 years or more.  The financial advantage of a physician ... flow from rent also tend to be good inflation fighters.  5. Bank credit abuse Bank credit abuse is an annoying and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M. Koehle, MD December 2003
... swimming, tennis, weightlifting, and water polo. [5,6]  Another effective tactic for attenuating EIA attacks ... after 6 to 12 minutes of exercise and are most severe 5 to 10 minutes after exercise. In addition, about 50% of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stuart Johnston, MD May 2003
... of telemedicine projects across Canada and the world. [5]  Telehealth also has the potential to decrease costs for ... present at only six of 116 videoconferencing sessions (5%). [35]  In the Vanderhoof-Stoney Creek telehealth ... and lack of evidence showing cost-effectiveness. [2,5,36-39] With respect to the Vanderhoof-Stoney Creek ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brian McGowan, MD October 2003
... patients hospitalized at any given time. This represents 6.5% overall reduction in the bed base, or 11% of the ... • The average age of hospitalist patients was 64.5 compared with family physician patients at 72.3. • During ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
... have been a leading cause of death in the province. [5]  The neighborhood is the most impoverished urban area in ... the leading causes of death in many large US cities. [2,5]  In Baltimore, for example, overdose deaths increased by ... costs are estimated to cost Canadians in excess of $5 billion annually. [11] Illicit drug use also places ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... The tumor is located on the posterior wall of the rectum 5 cm from the anal verge. By palpation the tumor is mobile ... has been shown to decrease local recurrence to 4% to 5% in prospective national Dutch and Swedish trials. [1,2] ... associated with increased local recurrence ( Table 2 ). [5]  However, when we attempted to assess the presence of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Martin Petric, PhD, FCCM March 2003
... diarrhea is now documented to be over 20% from less than 5% by previous estimates, implicating children as a source of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC December 2003
... 300 (81% men) with cholesterol (TC) concentrations below 6.5 mmol (average TC was 5.5 mmol/L, LDL-C 3.4 mmol/L and HDL-C 1.3 mmol/L) were ...
Letters / BY: Tom Pickles, MD, FRCPC June 2003
... vomiting, and diarrhea are more frequent with LHRHa (5% v ~1%). Withdrawal from LHRHa occurs in 0% to 8.3% ... to date, from the US Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study, [5]  showed that those men who chose LHRHa had increased ... addressing this issue are unlikely to report within 5 years. Alternatives to either form of castration include ...