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News May 2010
... and relationships between cost, service utilization, and health outcomes for those with mild to moderate dementia ... is a key result of negotiations between the Ministry of Health Services and the BCMA. Phy­sicians are able to submit ...
News July/August 2010
... and assisted vaginal deliveries varied widely across health regions in BC over a 4-year period. Published in the ... in the country, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The study also found significant regional ... and assisted vaginal delivery rates across BC’s 16 health services delivery areas that could not be explained by ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC November 2010
... for injured alcohol-impaired drivers admitted to Calgary Health Region trauma service between 1999 and 2003 was only ... diabetes by interviewing Mr Clark’s physician. However, health professionals who release patient information without ... of Ethics permits “disclosure of patients’ personal health information to third parties only with their consent, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, January/February 2010
... of primary care practitioners, and the paucity of mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, to assist in ... if untreated. • Taking into account the direct health, education, and justice-related costs associated with ... Nanaimo Co-Medical Director, Child, Youth, and Family Health, VIHA —Rex Bowering, MD, FRCPC Child and Youth ...
Editorials / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD April 2010
... society yet is the leading consumer of hospital beds and health care dollars.  The average admission for an acute ... the prognosis. This report challenges everyone in the health care system—administrators, physicians, and ...
News / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2010
... about estrogen and progesterone’s role in perimenopausal health, and that some practising physicians might reflexively ... negative evidence of estrogen’s ability to im­prove the health of normal perimeno­pausal women is clearly reported, ...
News September 2010
... peer-reviewed grant funds from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Cancer Institute of Canada, and ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP November 2010
... and spackling.  In the past 40 years, as adverse health effects were recognized, the use of asbestos in Canada ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC March 2010
... and the need for it to be available within the provincial health care system, radiation oncologists from the BC Cancer ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP May 2010
... seems to have gradually changed the way the public and health care providers view CPR. Rather than still being ... study did show that patients wish to have both family and health care professionals involved in the decision-making ... of all options, particularly the no CPR option, where the health care team continues to care for the patient to allow ...