Clinical Articles /
BY: Mohammed Abdelmalek, BSc
December 2021
... due to permanent sensorineural hearing loss.[ 7-9 ] The disease is subclassified into mucosal and ... of the canal in addition to cholesteatoma removal.[ 9 ] Severe otalgia or headache in a patient with otorrhea is ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Faizan Bhatia, MD
June 2021
... 278 (IQR 245, 332) and a median journal impact factor of 9.6 (IQR 6.1, 19.1). All journals had associated Twitter ... 2 signify quartile 1 to 4: Q1 (< 6.08), Q2 (6.08 < < 9.5765), Q3 (9.5765 < < 19.1305), Q4 (> 19.1305). Presence of an Instagram ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD
March 2021
... including a life expectancy for First Nations persons 9 years less than non–First Nations people,[ 2 ] a twofold ... desired outcome of BC’s health care system (see Finding 9 of the full report, p. 125). There is also no routine ...
Editorials /
BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
November 2021
... to opioids only in the last few weeks of life, if at all.[ 9 ] Physicians trained during those times learned to fear and ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 /
BY: Brian Deady, MD, FRCPC
September 2021
... has been conducted at some facilities in Canada,[ 8 , 9 ] but no routine screening has been carried out in BC. Our ... on the range of 0% to 14% reported in the literature.[ 1-9 , 11 , 12 ] For a cross-sectional study with the ... including registered psychiatric nurses, accounted for 48.9% of the total number of collected samples in the emergency ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
December 2021
... continued worsening of the opioid crisis. In the first 9 months of this year, over 1500 individuals died of opioid ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Catherine Zhou, MD, MSc
July/August 2021
... Small bowel obstruction also has a high recurrence rate.[ 9 ] Additionally, ASBO has been associated with a high ... was not statistically significant (7.5% versus 22.9%; P = 0.066). However, after adjusting for age, gender, and ... “hospital stay helpful” received a mean grade of 9.2 out of 10, where 0 was “not helped at all” and 10 was ...
Premise /
BY: Hannah Lishman, PhD
March 2021
... succession), otherwise known as “the atopic march.”[ 9 ] Lastly, wider evaluations of the safety of large ... BC, average monthly costs of antibiotics decreased by $18.9 per 1000 population, resulting in an annual savings for the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC
November 2021
... better tolerated and more effective than other opioids.[ 9 , 10 ] A short (1 h), free CME-accredited online module, ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Raiya Suleman, BHSc
May 2021
... and 26.6% were severely lonely, using the Hughes scale.[ 9 ] Across studies, loneliness among older adults is shown to ... and vision impairment, as well as overall mortality.[ 5 , 9-12 ] It is clear that social isolation, and consequently, ...