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Letters / BY: Rylen A. Williamson, BSc September 2024
... tool endorsed provincially through the BC Ministry of Health and nationally through the Concussion Harmonization ... Hospital Investigator, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia Letters Physician ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC November 2024
Dr Ahmer A. Karimuddin Health care in British Columbia and across Canada has been ... patients, and with those who have responsibility for the health care system. Especially if we are willing to do the ... and togetherness, that is the future we will build for our health care system. When our patients come to us in distress, ...
Letters / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2024
... requiring action across a continuum including mental health, trauma prevention, addiction treatment, and harm ... examine the population at risk. For example, using linked health data sources, a team of BC researchers identified a ... criteria for a substance use disorder in administrative health data are also at risk: people fitting this description ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jae Ford, MD, MPH May 2024
... carry. Clinicians can also send ticks to the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory for free identification and pathogen ... Information about laboratory tests available at the Public Health Laboratory can be found at www.elabhandbook.info . —Jae Ford, MD, MPH Resident Physician, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, UBC —Quinn Stewart, MPH ...
Letters / BY: Eastside Illicit Drinkers Group for Education July/August 2024
... is unable to regularly access oral thiamine from health care providers or MAP services, choosing instead to ... are Indigenous, the potential for oral thiamine to reduce health harms and associated costs for drinkers not presently covered by First Nations Health Benefits will remain unrealized in the absence of ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Alex Chan, PhD, MD, FRCSC October 2024
... Canadian benchmarks. In 2021, the Canadian Institute for Health Information reported that only 65% of hip replacements ... 1 ] Lengthy wait times are associated with decreased health-related quality of life, increased pain severity, and ... times must be evidence informed and codesigned with local health professionals. The Shared Orthopaedic Referral and ...
Letters / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC December 2024
... thereafter with the provincial laboratory and public health soon led to the discovery of a large community ...
News January/February 2024
... cancer, or have their screening sample collected by a health care provider, and will have access to a network of ...
Letters / BY: Lisa Veres, MD April 2024
... in which family physicians were paid by the Ministry of Health to sit down to collaborate with each other, our specialist colleagues, and our health authority? Unfortunately, as the years rolled by, it ... acute care. For the last 8 years we have worked with our health authority and EMR vendors to create the primary care ...
Premise / BY: Lauren Whitehead, MD, FRCSC June 2024
... 8000 per year by 2013, placing enormous pressure on the health care system and fertility clinics. With the increase ... coverage for procedures and medications through extended health benefits should have the same access to government ...