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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC October 2004
... not appear to be supported by the existing literature. [2] Mercury exposure to the general population comes primarily ... ppb (1.5 nmol/L) in children aged 1 to 5 and a mean of 1.2 ppb (6 nmol/L) in women aged 16 to 49. The 90th percentiles were 1.4 ppb (7 nmol/L) and 6.2 ppb (31 nmol/L) respectively. [4]  We lack comparable ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martin Pusic, MD June 2004
... choose antibiotics for bacteremia or meningitis. [2]  The clinicians would enter a series of facts about ... of blood from a patient. The result, a low potassium of 2.9 mmol/L, is entered into the laboratory information ... logic module (MLM) would extract the fact “potassium is 2.9” and search out rules applicable to this fact, one of ...
Letters / BY: Miguel Imperial, MD December 2004
... examined the workloads of family physicians in Winnipeg. [2]  Although they found that the rates of family ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paula Braitstein, MA, MSc January/February 2004
... transplants are summarized in  Table 1 , while  Table 2  describes patient and graft survival in a large cohort of ... the risk of transmission of HIV is low (0.3%, 95% CI: 0.2% – 0.5%), and is substantially lower than the risk of ... (83%) N = 13 (68%) All 4 deaths in study among coinfected; 2 with HCV Rx and 2 without 19/19 Recurrent HCV at 15 months; ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... associated with a significant reduction in dementia risk. [2]  The goal of preventing and reducing the effects of both ... bodies  Mixed  Unclassifiable  Other Percentage (%) 47.2 8.7 5.4 2.5 33.8 1.8 0.6 Source: Adapted from Feldman H, Levy AR, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nita Jain, MD, FRCPC April 2004
... Perinatal colonization can persist for up to 6 months. [2]  Gonococcal (GC) infection beyond the newborn period is ... found in sexual abuse victims, with a prevalence of 2% to 5% [1]  and concurrent chlamydia infection is common. [4]  The incubation period is usually 2 to 7 days. [4]  In prepubertal girls, the lack of ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD November 2004
... the clinics assigned to residents/fellows allowed 11/2 hours for a new patient and 45 minutes for a follow-up. At ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... makes e-health attractive to many health professionals. [2] Effective ICT-enabled decision support strategies manifest ... systems as aids to physicians in their practice. In Part 2, we examine how the World Wide Web can help physicians ... Embedding technologies into health practices, Part 2: Decision support on demand—e-health’s killer-app? ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jean Hlady, MD, FRCPC March 2004
... seminar or publishing it in a reputable journal. [2]   • If you don’t know the answer to a question, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC November 2004
... 0 to 14 years, among the highest reported in the world. [2]  The prevalence of T1D (using 1990 American data) is ... more than 6200 expectant mothers worldwide during the next 2 years. Nationally, the Canadian Institutes of Health ... At least one company is said to be working on this. Phase 2 studies of Diamyd, a Swedish GAD protein-based oral ...