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President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD May 2006
... funding was $500 million, which was later increased to $1.1 billion to achieve this goal. Physicians and other health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dr J. Mark Ansermino, FFA, MMed, MSc, FRCPC September 2006
... that also reduces and, where plausible, prevents errors. [1]  In addition, strategic design of the equipment and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2006
... MRSA infections are becoming more prevalent, [1]  in keeping with the high frequency of MRSA in health ... are variable. For example, the isolate from Patient 1 (see  Table ) manifested erythromycin resistance but was ... isolates were obtained from different infection sites over 1 week, and these were discrepant for clindamycin ...
News / BY: Mark Bigham, MD July/August 2006
... is the period of highest WNV risk to the blood supply. [1,2]  As in the previous 2 years, no case of ... in a health region over a 2-week period exceeding either 1:1000 in rural areas or 1:2500 in urban settings. SU testing was implemented for a ...
Premise / BY: Michael F. Myers, MD, November 2006
... absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul?” [1] He was very disciplined and very organized Listen to this ... The Principles and Practice of Medicine  was completed 1 year later. It was over 1000 pages and one of the last ...
Editorials / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC May 2006
... on health care in general in those areas  (BCMJ 2003;45[1]:16) . That earlier piece stressed that al though it is ...
Letters / BY: Bernhard E. Driedger, MD, FRCSC September 2006
... article in  Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research [1]  (one of the four major orthopaedic journals) found ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc December 2006
... pneumococcal disease in those under the age of 5. [1]  ( Figure ). The immune response to conjugate vaccine is ... in early infancy followed by a further dose closer to age 1 year (a total of three doses) indicated excellent induction ... of 77.8% for the 2-, 4-, and 12-month schedule, and 78.1% for the four-dose (2, 4, 6, and 18 months) schedule. [7] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Areta B. Wong, BSc, March 2006
... of a health care system in meeting their needs. [1]  Although maternal mortality rates are now lower than in ... and 35 maternal deaths in BC during 1987–2004 ( Table 1 ). Of the 35 deaths, 29 (83%) were due to direct causes and ... within 42 days postpartum, and between 43 days or 1 year postpartum. These check-boxes improve the reliability ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2006
... assessment. A typical report that I see shows small (<1 cm) thyroid nodule, osteopenia, small renal/adrenal cyst, ...