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Clinical Articles / BY: L.S. Yefet, MD October 2021
... overdose-related death rates remained the highest in BC at a rate of 20.0 per 100 000, twice the national ... 21 , 22 ] We describe opioid prescribing patterns in BC from 2013 to 2017 with the primary goal of determining the ... based on the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology Anatomical Therapeutic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Armon Molavi, MD October 2020
... 33 ] Prior to the 2019 release of the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) Provincial Guideline for the ... outpatient management of alcohol withdrawal. The previous BC guidelines outlined an approach for identifying and ... 33 ] The pharmacological treatment listed in the previous BC guidelines involves using diazepam for acute withdrawal ...
News September 2020
... Medicine Clinician Support Line, supported by the BC Centre on Substance Use, provides telephone consultation to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Meghan McLennan, BSc, MLT December 2020
... testing. In September 2020, collection centres across BC started offering saline gargle as an alternative to ... resulted in a global shortage of NP swabs, including in BC. The ability to test hinged on the ability to obtain NP ... Hospitals —Michael Donoghue Senior Project Manager, UBC Centre for Disease Control —Linda Hoang, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Derek C. Chang, MD April 2020
... died as a result. Due to the number of fatal overdoses, BC’s life expectancy has fallen for the first time in ... organizations, such as Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC,[ 1 ] Moms Stop the Harm,[ 2 ] the Canadian Association of ... heroin, and decreased criminal activities. Locally, the BC Centre on Substance Use published an evidence-based document ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Henry Lau, RD January/February 2020
... 1 ] These are both food security priorities at the BC Centre for Disease Control.   Incorporating the dietary ... RD —Melanie Kurrein, MA, RD Population Public Health, BC Centre for Disease Control, a part of Provincial Health ...
News December 2020
The Rural Coordination Centre of BC’s Rural Site Visits project is compiling ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
The BC Cancer Breast Screening Program resumed screening mammography services in select screening centre sites in June. The introduction of screening ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Sonny Thiara, MD October 2020
... ventilation.[ 6 ] The experience with COVID-19 in BC has been different than in other jurisdictions. Although BC has approximately 13.4% of the Canadian population,[ 7 ] ... 7 March 2020, the first two cases at the Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver were reported.[ 11 ] One resident ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: British Columbia COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee June 2020
... coverage of potential pharmacological agents.[ 1 , 2 ] In BC, we have had the benefit of a diverse group of experts (the BC COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee [CTC]) scanning and ... is submitted to the BC Health Emergency Coordination Centre Clinical Reference Group—Clinical Care Guidelines ...