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Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC December 2019
... found that rates of screen-detected[ 7 ] and interval[ 17 ] cancer vary with reported density. In reporting ... screening is performed annually, it has been suggested[ 17 ] that an annual interval cancer risk threshold of 1 per ...
Letters / BY: Sarah Fraser, BSc January/February 2019
... on hospital physician and health authority resources ($17 million and over 16 000 beds annually),[ 1 ] but also ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC September 2019
On 17 October 2018, it became legal in Canada for adults age 19 ... pregnant and breastfeeding women to avoid using the drug.[ 17 ] No clinical practice guideline has been developed yet, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD May 2019
... descriptive analysis of overdose deaths in BC in 2016–17 indicates that 44% of those who died were employed at the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
On 17 October 2018, Canada joined nine American states and ... such as cannabitriol and terpenes in some strains.[ 17 ] Cannabis neurobiology The different strains of cannabis ...
MDs To Be / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD October 2019
... to conclude false generalizations to other groups.[ 6 , 17 , 18 ] Poor representation of populations has been a ... practising clinical medicine will need to evolve.[ 17 ] With the help of ML, physicians will be able to leverage ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark A. Lau, PhD, R.Psych January/February 2019
... validity for the GAD-7 when used in a general population.[ 17 ] The 16-item Q-LES-Q asks patients to rate aspects of ... were identified in participants completing the program: 17% (1231/7203) at postintervention assessment compared with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joanna Cheek, MD, FRCPC October 2019
... found to have high internal reliability and validity.[ 17 ] The WSAS is a self-report scale measuring perceived ... 1820). The average age of participants was 46 years (range 17 to 89 years). Sixty percent of participants attended six ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC July/August 2019
... traces of oxycodone in mussels taken at 3 of 18 locations (17%). The finding of an opioid in mussels received extensive ... of opioid use in the US,[ 15 ] Spain,[ 16 ] Croatia,[ 17 ] Norway,[ 18 ] and Australia[ 19 ] (in the case of ...
Obituaries / BY: Arun K. Garg, PhD, MD March 2019
Dr Ralph William Spitzer passed away in Victoria, BC, on 17 October 2018 at the age of 100. He is survived by his ...