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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 ...