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Letters /
BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM)
October 2002
... Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine published, 2 years ago, a paper entitled “A randomized controlled ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Murray Allen, MD
June 2002
... BC may be explained by the high legal costs (see Figure 2 ). Unfortunately, comparable costs in other jurisdictions ... Whiplash per 100 000 population 71.7% 1015 70.9% 922 71.2% 1127 69.9% 1154 67.9% 1168 62.7% 1059 57.6% 970 57.5% 907 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Carolyn A. Montgomery, MB
September 2002
... a therapeutic abortion at some time in their life. [2] In developing countries women tend to seek abortion ... reported as follows: Infection due to C. trachomatis: 2% to 3%; N. gonorrhoea: <1:500; bacterial vaginosis: ... or testing and universal prophylaxis at one visit (Level 2 evidence). Screen and treat The screen-and-treat approach ...
Letters
May 2002
... edition [1] and we appreciate Dr Leduc’s response [2] illustrating the main reason too many parking placards ... we have not “grossly misinterpreted these results.” [2] We have quoted them verbatim, surprising though he may ... taking “the word of the patient on this” [2] rather than giving a diagnosis or referring the ...
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. ...