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WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD May 2008
... excused days off work is medically required.      2. Act with urgency because prolonged time away from work is ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD September 2008
... 10 minutes and on site within 45 minutes. • Level 2—Where a physician is required to be available by phone within 15 minutes and on site within 2 hours. • Level 3—Where a physician is required to be ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2008
... bothered by doctors sitting unpaid in the OR lounge for 2 hours in the evening waiting their turn to perform an ...
ICBC / BY: Glenyth Nasvadi, MA, March 2008
... will double to more than 25% of the driving population.[ 2 ] Currently, drivers age 75 and older represent the fastest ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC June 2008
... treated in hospital are convicted of impaired driving.[ 2 ] In the second study, characteristics and conviction rates ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2008
... Peter Legge Management Co. Ltd., 2008. ISBN 978-0-9781459-2-7. Paperback, 272 pages. $29.95. To order, e-mail  ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM April 2008
... Ma­laria is a major public health problem worldwide. Over 2.4 billion people in more than 90 countries—40% of the ... States: A systematic review. JAMA 2007;297:2264-2277.   2. Tampuz A, Jereb M, Muzlovic I, et al. Clinical review: ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, July/August 2008
... second-leading cause of death among 10- to 24-year-olds.[ 2 ]  • Canada has the third worst suicide rate in the world for 15- to 19-year-olds.[ 2 ] • 40% to 50% of office visits to pediatricians are for ... receive any form of psychological care and a mere 1% to 2% are treated by mental health specialists.[ 5 ] • Every ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anne R. Synnes, MDCM, FRCPC, MHSc, November 2008
... age differed from the obstetric estimate by more than 2 weeks, in which case the pediatric estimate took ... at 4, 8, and 18 months corrected age and 3 and 41/2 years of age. The NFUP used definitions of normal, mild, ... study[<a href="#11">11</a>] to evaluate the outcome at 41/2 years of 341 survivors born at 22 to 25 weeks’ GA between ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pat G. Camp, MSc, PT, March 2008
... COPD is both underreported and under­diagnosed.[ 1 , 2 ] Obtaining an accurate estimate of the true burden of COPD ... extremely low, even though the Canadian Thoracic Society[ 2 ] and BC guidelines[ 3 ] for COPD recommend that COPD be ... not captured in administrative health data. Data source 2 The prevalence estimates obtained from the British Columbia ...