Search

Clinical Articles / BY: Agnes To, MD November 2002
... the Treatment of Depressive Disorders for psychiatrists [2-8]  (guidelines available at  www.canmat.org ). We now ... article, “Treatment of depression in primary care—Part 2: Principles of maintenance treatment,” and its companion ... of treatment, and monitoring of response. In Part 2, we continue with principles of maintenance treatment of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mann Chandavimol, MD, FRCPC January/February 2002
... competent patients are shown in  Table 1 . [2]  Viral infection has been postulated as the most common ... in HIV-positive patients are demonstrated in  Table 2 . [3] Systemic diseases that cause pericarditis can be ... infarction pericarditis usually developed on day 2 or day 3 after a transmural infarction. The clinical course ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Ferrari, MD, FRCPC July/August 2002
... frequency and intensity of either neck pain or headache. [2] Combining the two studies, the 95% confidence limits for ... subjects with acute whiplash injury in both studies. [1,2]  As none of the collision victims seemed to have ... 10%, it would be important to distinguish the possible 2% to 3% effects of acute-to-chronic injury from the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC May 2002
... seen particularly in patients with diabetes. [2,3]  Approximately 80% of patients with adult onset ... coronary event. [5] Interestingly, diabetic women have 2.5 times greater risk of CHD death compared to diabetic men. ... disease at all levels of risk factors ( Figure 2 ). Of the major causal risk factors (age, smoking, ...
Letters / BY: Peter Rees, PhD, FRCPC October 2002
... results are obtained in depression and chronic pain, [1,2]   one or both of which are customary in chronic whiplash. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Fleming, MD June 2002
... is indicated if the possibility of a fracture exists. [2] Decision rules Initiatives are under way in Canada and the ... alone do not indicate a specific diagnosis of whiplash. [2]  Young people in particular can often reverse the ... of this review, but excellent references are available. [2,3]  The current standard set of radiographs undertaken in ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD March 2002
... Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada. [ 2]  The trial chose only carefully selected cases for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Theresa Isomura, MD, FRCPC October 2002
... [1]  and the prevalence of psychiatric disorder is 25%. [2,3]  Yet fewer than 5% of patients with identified ... (Dr T. Isomura) visited each clinic for a half-day every 2 weeks to do consultations, brief follow-ups, and referral ... adjustment disorder (n = 7, 5%), and substance abuse (n = 2, 2%). Two first-episode psychotic patients were identified ...
Letters / BY: Bernhard Toews, MD May 2002
... concerns ( "Please fix walk-in problem"  [ BCMJ 2001;43(2):71 ]) about the demise of general practice in White Rock ... the fee schedule could define the difference as well. 2. Residency positions must be made available to those family ... than those without such training. 3. If suggestions 1 or 2 don’t work, I would suggest lobbying the CRTC to pull ER ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marcos Gobrial, MD, CCFP December 2002
... road; the closest tertiary-care centre is in Vancouver, a 2-hour flight. The hospital in this community is one of the ... serve an estimated clinic population of 2750 people. [2]  Each year these physicians see more than 8000 patients ... that has a physician-staffed health facility ( Table 2 ). The Cariboo region is known to be among the unhealthiest ...