Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC
May 2023
... of a health care system that contributes approximately 5% of the total greenhouse gases causing climate change. ... care. Review the Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations[ 5 ] for your specialty to identify frequently overused tests ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP
October 2023
... codes account for only 0.6% of family practice and 1.5% of psychiatry billings for individuals 60 years of age and ... reflecting underdiagnosis or a secondary diagnosis.[ 5 ] Physicians, especially frontline primary care providers, ...
Editorials /
BY: Brian Day, MB
March 2023
... drugs to be available for all. Canadians are 3 to 5 times more likely than residents of comparable countries to ... can afford to travel to the US if they really need care.[ 5 ] Many politicians have extolled the virtues of our system ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles /
BY: Laura Gentile, RD, MHA
July/August 2023
... 1- or 2-time flexible sigmoidoscopy, and colonoscopy.[ 4 , 5 ] The results are the intention to screen results, which ... In June 2015, the Northern Health Authority, representing 5.5% of the screening age–eligible BC population, withdrew ...
Letters /
BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD
December 2023
... entered the health administration lexicon. Over the last 5 years, we as frontline health care providers have been ...
Editorials /
BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD
April 2023
... security and the right to health care. J Hum Secur 2015;11:5-18. Editorials Acknowledging land and Earth ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Karen Takai, MSc
September 2023
... to work and to ensure that it occurs whenever possible.[ 5 ] Word choice can, at first glance, seem inconsequential, ...
College Library /
BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS
January/February 2023
... guidelines on infectious diseases published in the last 5 years. —Karen MacDonell Director, Library Services ...
News
April 2023
... within or outside Canada, the plan offers a maximum of $5 million per person, per emergency, to cover medical ...
Premise /
BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC
September 2023
... of the rising costs of office space[ 4 ] and staff[ 5 ] and the introduction of electronic medical record keeping ... may be earned by spending 7 hours on patient encounters 4.5 days per week, with an average of 20 minutes per patient ... family physicians to provide longitudinal care for all 5.3 million British Columbians;[ 16 ] if the increased paid ...