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Clinical Articles / BY: Timothy K.S. Christie, PhD April 2003
... duty to warn, but the two are fundamentally different. [1,2]  The duty to warn occurs when the health care ...
Letters / BY: Dorothy M. Goresky, MD November 2003
... for the lazy physician who will cream off the top with a 2-minute interview and leave the more time-consuming, ...
Editorials / BY: Jack Taunton, MD December 2003
... Sports Medicine Centre Editorials Sport medicine, Part 2: Treatment (Guest editorial) ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Norman Phillips MSc July/August 2003
... clinical trials at reducing colorectal cancer mortality. [2-4]  FOB is not very effective at detecting polyps and ... using data obtained from the BC Cancer Registry.  Figure 2  shows the obtained agreement between model-predicted and ... rates of endoscopy used in the model are given in  Table 2   [10]  and are based on reported rates from endoscopy ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terry Curran, MD, FRCP March 2003
... trading equates to buy-and-hold, which is a good habit. 2. Asset mix allocation The term  asset mix allocation ... can be used to pay for children’s university education. [2]  If you are looking to face education payments 10 to 15 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M. Ryan, MSc November 2003
... Results Data were recorded from 1265 runners over the 2-year period. In 2000, 844 questionnaires were completed, ... noted in the first year of the study, with 635 (75.2%) females and 205 (24.3%) males participating (4 runners ...  = .002), and a BMI between 20 and 26 (F = 69.8%, M = 30.2%;  P  = .003). In addition, more women than men (F = ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stuart Johnston, MD May 2003
... treatment, and monitoring • Delivering medical services [2,3] Telehealth is a technology that, theoretically, can make ... care professionals, and the entire health care system. [2] Clinical applications of telehealth technology remain more ... Lake. That telehealth line has been in place for at least 2 years. Discussions with the emergency room physician who ...
Letters / BY: Caroline Penn, MD December 2003
... with efficacy rates near 100% in healthy individuals. [1,2] Unfortunately, lab tests for hepatitis may be confusing ... through a fecal-oral route and has an incubation time of 2 to 9 weeks. Although it is relatively benign, there is a mortality rate of 1% to 2% overall and a high rate of mortality (20%) in pregnant ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC January/February 2003
... miles out of Dease Lake; Telegraph Creek, a spectacular 2-hour drive up and down three immense canyons including the ... 80 kilometres south on Highway 37; and Good Hope Lake, 11/2 hours north. For many years, there was agitation with the ... for Dease Lake in BC, is a painful and time-consuming 61/2- to 7-hour journey. There is Watson Lake Hospital, a mere ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kathy McInnes, BSc(Pharm) September 2003
... creatinine (umol/L) × 0.81   Since 1997, more than 1.2 million digoxin prescriptions have been dispensed to over ... fibrillation to help control ventricular response rate. [1,2]  The 2001 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Consensus ... in contrast to the usually cited range of 0.6 nmol/L to 2.6 nmol/L (0.5 nmol/L to 2 ng/mL). [3] Doses in women should ...