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Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... CVD results in a significant burden of morbidity and health care cost. In 1998, CVD was the most expensive disease ... added to the CDM program established by the BC Ministry of Health and the British Columbia Medical Association.  By ...
Back Page / BY: William A. Falk, MD, FCFPC, FRCGP September 2008
... have a tendency to just muddle through. Unfortunately, our health system shows it. Up to the eyebrows in reports, ... will be politically acceptable and effective in providing health care.  Unfortunately they are all saddled with a ... need for people to take more responsibility for their own health care. I couldn’t agree more with that idea, as far ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, November 2008
... ac­cord­ing to the program’s BCMA and Ministry of Health Services co-leads.  Consultants interviewed the ... changes in their practices with support from their local health authority PSP team, including FP and MOA program ... also seen as fostering a new spirit of collaboration among health system stakeholders. “This is a significant ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Al Talag, MD, March 2008
... the family practitioner, respir­ologist, and respiratory health care team, such as teaching effective in­haler ... participants in disease management. Education can reduce health care utilization by itself and by managing acute ... muscle strength.[ 25 , 29 - 33 , 35 ] • Improvement in health status: Pul­monary rehabilitation is associated with ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS May 2008
... in the US and around the world, and are in need of travel health insurance. To answer this need, BCMA has arranged to ... and more. Availability of optimum, preferred, and standard health options and rates provide coverage for those with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey M. Pike, MD, MPH, FRCSC July/August 2008
... and medical oncology as well as experienced allied health professionals essential to patient care.  ... remains high even in Canada’s highly sophisticated health care system.  Core needle biopsy, usually with the ... Unfortunately, these errors still occur, even in modern health care systems, as demonstrated by Paszat and colleagues ...
Letters October 2008
... practice of these physicians, the workload of other health care workers, and most importantly, patient care.  It ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2008
... called for an increased private sector role in delivering health care to Canadians. Specifically, he stated that ... end of medicare. These stakeholders warned of decline of health care by bringing up the themes of commercialization, ... were then paraded out. I don’t know which type of health care delivery system would best meet the needs of the ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, April 2008
... often with government, university educators, and other health care stakeholders.  Most serve from a sense of duty; ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS June 2008
Eligible extended health and dental claims from the BCMA Health Benefits Trust Fund (HBTF) for the 2007 benefit year ... BC is 800 665-2262, extension 2818 or 2865. News Extended health and dental claims deadlines ...