Clinical Articles /
BY: Pankaj Dhawan, MD, FRCPC,
November 2006
... injury (mTBI) is estimated to be 100 to 300 per 100 000. [1] One difficulty in identifying and reporting mild ... escalation of symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury. [1,3,9,11] These medical, psychological, and situational factors are summarized in Table 1 . The presence of one or more of the risk factors in ...
Premise /
BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2006
... 1964 in the British Columbia Medical Journal . [1] It was titled “The BIP (Basic Influence and ... Factor,” and was based on the following premises: 1. All procedures, institutions, drugs, and interviews, apart ...
News /
BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS
June 2006
... to specialty care physicians. The term of the agreement is 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2012. Although it is a 6-year ... years. The combined increases result in an increase of 19.1% over 4 years, or an average of 4.5% annually. Some ... from fee-for-service payments to a service contract. • $1 million to support surgeons participating in the surgical ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: G. Ross Baker, PhD,
September 2006
... of the incidence of adverse events in Canadian hospitals. [1] Published in May 2004, the study was based on methods ... events might be prevented if usual care was provided. [1] These results from the Canadian Adverse Events Study are ...
Back Page /
BY: Gerd A. Asche, MD
April 2006
... and no means to measure arterial blood pressure. Part 1 of this article appeared in the March 2006 issue of the ...
Letters /
BY: Michael Dettman, MD,
July/August 2006
... to this letter In JAW’s editorial (BCMJ 2006;48[1]:4-6) and G.F.O. Tyers’s letter (BCMJ 2006;48[4]:163) ...
News /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
November 2006
... structure for family practitioners that came into effect 1 April 2006: FP Obstetrical Premium —a continuation of the ... CMA web site at www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/1368/la_id/1.htm. Or contact Ms Kathy Hannam, Strategic and Corporate ...
Letters /
BY: G. Frank O. Tyers, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FACC, ABS, ABTS
May 2006
... private system. —ED [See responses to this letter: 1 , 2 , 3 Letters Re: Status quo--not an option ...
Editorials /
BY: Dr J. Mark Ansermino, FFA, MMed, MSc, FRCPC
September 2006
... cancer, motor vehicle accidents, and AIDS combined, [1] and many of these adverse events have been judged ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jill Franklin, BA,
December 2006
... symptoms during the first month postinjury. [1] Most brain-function recovery takes place within 6 months ... third-party funding. When a referral is made more than 1 year postinjury—as often happens with mTBI—a ...