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Letters / BY: Jim Henderson September 2002
... on the accessibility of research in support of clinical practice. My column analyzed, hopefully dispassionately, the ...
Letters May 2002
... thousands, discussing the state of health care and medical practice in the province. Character #1: “Doctors are ... in the world to live, and I have a good income from my practice. I have no complaints.” Character #15: “I ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) October 2002
... contentious relationship between CAM and conventional practice. Phraseology in the brochure like “may not be ... minerals, herbs, and other therapies. • Evidence-based practice is central to good modern medicine. Since evidence ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andrew R. Woolfenden, MD, FRCPC April 2002
... of anticoagulation has been demonstrated in clinical practice. [ 36,37]  Anticoagulation clinics improve INR ... Table 3 . Underutilization of anticoagulation in clinical practice  Despite the results of many randomized trials that ... remains a significant underuse of warfarin in clinical practice. In one American hospital-based study, 56% of AF ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Theresa Isomura, MD, FRCPC October 2002
... caring for the mental health needs of patients in their practice. Studies show that the prevalence of patients seen ... HSO (Health Service Organization, a rostered primary care practice) Program, which was initiated in 1994 and funded by ... and we adopted this tenet for our project. Two family practice clinics participated: a clinic in Coquitlam with ...
Letters / BY: Bernhard Toews, MD May 2002
...  [ BCMJ 2001;43(2):71 ]) about the demise of general practice in White Rock are not exaggerated. Our communities ... are witnessing a similar exit of family physicians from practice with no one to replace them. Those of us brave or ... as specialists. We will attract more doctors to family practice if they know that this is not a dead end. How many ...
Clinical Articles / BY: A.J. Macgregor, MD November 2002
Family practice is in disarray. A service that until recently was ... care system now suffers daily losses from full-service practice to episodic walk-in clinics and an increasingly wide ... employment. Medical students now consider family practice much less attractive, and graduating FP residents ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Clugston, MD, FRCSC, FACS April 2002
... benefits of breast reconstruction, the  Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Breast ... on a delayed or immediate basis. Only 8% stated their practice was to refer to a plastic surgeon at the same time ... information about breast reconstruction in the  Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Breast ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Ellen Anderson, MD October 2002
... and difficult to score, making it less useful in clinical practice. The 20-item Zung Depression Self-Rating Scale is ... than most of the routine laboratory tests we use daily in practice. If the score is 4/9 or less, then we need to ... score on the HAM-D or BDI in most clinical trials—in practice we ideally want to see our patients in remission ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Roey M. Malleson, MBBS, DFFP, MHSC January/February 2002
... be any significant reduction in efficacy, and though this practice still needs confirmation, it does allow for some ... induction of liver enzymes (e.g., rifampicin), the usual practice is to double the dose of ECP. However, it is not ... patients (e.g., medical office assistants, receptionists, practice nurses, answering services) should be aware of the ...