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Clinical Articles / BY: Ava Azhir, BSc Pharm, ACPR May 2022
... the potential drug–drug and drug–host interactions.[ 7 ] Therefore, patients should be counseled when a change to ... specialist nurse (£710) for short-term treatments of 4 to 7 days. For patients who required a longer duration of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sarah Dunn, MPH Practicum Student September 2022
... $1500 per patient or $2.3 million over a 90-day period.[ 7 ] Small investments can return substantial cost savings; ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2022
... a cohort of persons born in 1910 was 21.1 years, and 22.7 years for a similar cohort born in 1960. In the mid-1970s, the average age of a Canadian person was 26.7 at childbirth.[ 4 ] I am not sharing this data to criticize ... their maximum number of eggs by 20 weeks gestation—6 to 7 million in total. Egg numbers decline throughout life, but ...
Editorials / BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCP, FACP, MRCP June 2022
... Rates of chronic hepatitis B in British Columbia (21.7 per 100 000 population) were above the national average ...
Letters / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD December 2022
... been a difficult year for the College’s investments (−7.3%)—as it has been for all institutional investors—its ...
News April 2022
... Virtual Support (RTVS) physicians, who are available 24/7 over Zoom, has been welcomed with open arms. And physicians ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Braedon Aujla, BSc September 2022
... densities all influence collision occurrence.[ 2 , 7 ] Many roads in north-central British Columbia wind through ... need of other medical specialties, while the remaining 7% required orthopaedic surgery. Most moose–vehicle ... than those involved in moose–vehicle collisions, only 7% needed additional medical specialty treatment. This could ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Cheryl Young, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
... and using ivermectin, including veterinary formulations.[ 7 ] In parallel, a shortage of prescription ivermectin ... highest to lowest for rate of cases of COVID-19 over the 7-day period between 5 and 11 October 2021.[ 17 ] Similarly, ... Tips for health care providers BC DPIC is available 24/7, 365 days a year to provide consultation on management or ...
MDs To Be, COVID-19 / BY: Brooke Cheng May 2022
... as being caused by the “Chinese virus.”[ 2 , 6 , 7 ] This phenomenon transcends borders, occurring even in ... environments and individuals exposed to COVID-19.[ 2 , 7 ] The manifestations of this fear have been numerous and ... in both their personal and professional lives.[ 2 , 7 ] A survey conducted by the Canadian Union of Public ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Emily Ertel, MD November 2022
... In others, laparoscopic common bile duct exploration[ 1 , 7 , 8 ] or laparoscopic transcystic sphincteroplasty[ 9 ] as ... found a CF approach shortened hospital length of stay by 2.7 to 3.0 days and reduced the need for ERCP to 24% to 26%.[ 5 ... of stay was shorter in the CF group (CF 5.3 days vs EF 7.4 days, P = .04). ERCP procedures were avoided in 48% ...