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Clinical Articles / BY: Ronald S. Manley, PhD, RPsych January/February 2005
... with a patient struggling with an eating disorder. [1]  The nature of an eating disorder is such that it lends a ...
Premise / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) June 2005
... 2500 new physicians a year yet graduates only about 1500. [1]  BC’s estimated need is 300 new physicians per year, ... Green’s study, of 1000 members of the population over a 1-month period, 217 visited a physician, 65 visited a ... department, 8 were admitted to a general hospital, and 1 was hospitalized in a university teaching hospital. It is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS November 2005
... illness and its prevalence increases with age. [1]  The Alzheimer Society of Canada uses a staging system ... AD. Features of late disease are summarized in  Table 1 . In a recent longitudinal cohort study, median survival ... in cognition, function, survival, or cost of care after 1 year of implementing the program. [17]  Whether there is ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP March 2005
... annual incidence in the general population is estimated at 1 to 1 cases per million. The incidence of mesothelioma has ... 11/2 years, and for peritoneal tumors it’s less than 1 year. Causes While several causes of mesothelioma have been ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nancy Craven, MD, CCFP July/August 2005
Recommendation 1 in the BC guidelines for chronic kidney disease [1]  published in 2004 lists the following high-risk groups: ... Care Initiative) can use bright-colored stickers ( Figure 1 ) to mark charts of at-risk patients. Each time the office ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jerilynn C. Prior, MD, FRCPC December 2005
... after the final menstrual period? The WHO 1996 guidelines [1]  and a 2001 Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop (STRAW) ... women over 40, without hysterectomy) as beginning after 1 year without flow. It’s helpful to know that further flow ... purposes of this discussion,  menopause  is defined as 1 year without menstrual flow. The contrasting life cycle ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gregory M.F. Ganz, MD, CM, FRCPC July/August 2005
... in the American population at approximately 9% to 14%. [1]  Extrapolating from this data to our population suggests ... a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of less than 60 mL/min/1.73m 2  (normal GFR being greater than 90 mL/min). Chronic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2005
... of a survey. The first question on the survey (see  Table 1 ), which is also the first question in the SF-36 survey, ... assistance. Competing interests None declared. Table 1. Quality of life indicators from survey. Survey item Likert scale range Self-rated health 1 (excellent) to 5 (poor) Self-rated stress 1 (unstressful) ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jana Patenaude, BSc, MSc October 2005
... and older, had type 2 diabetes mellitus in 1998–1999. [1]  In British Columbia, the prevalence rate is ... is estimated that the prevalence of diabetes will reach 7.1% by the year 2010. [2] Aboriginal people as a group appear ... Yukon, and Northwest Territories had the lowest, at 1.6%, 1.2%, and 0.8%, respectively.[8] The majority of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Deirdre Ryan, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2005
... postpartum women (30% to 75%) develop these mood changes, [1]  generally within 2 to 3 days of delivery. Symptoms peak ... a peak of incidence within the first 4 months postpartum. [1]  The prevalence of depression during the postpartum ... feeling over the past 7 days. Responses are scored as 0, 1, 2, or 3, for a maximum score of 30. A minimum score of 12 ...