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Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Laura Gentile, RD, MHA July/August 2023
... cause of cancer death. It will affect approximately 1 in 14 men and 1 in 16 women during their lifetime.[ 1 ] Screening for colorectal cancer detects cancer at an ...
Letters / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP November 2023
... in 2000–2020 under a capitated blended-funding model[ 1 ] (based on the Johns Hopkins Primary Care model and Dr ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD March 2023
... deaths due to the toxic illicit drug supply alone.[ 1 ] All age groups are at risk of poisoning, but the types of ... comprehensive review in the United States found that each $1 spent on poison control centres saves over $13 in other ... the public and health care professionals (604 682-5050 or 1 800 567-8911). A weekday drug information phone service for ...
Obituaries / BY: F. Michelle Sutter, MD, FRCSC June 2023
... Morley became a professor in pharmacology, first for 1 year at the University of Toronto, then in the UBC Faculty ...
Premise / BY: R. Eric Demers, BSc, CCPA, CD September 2023
... of the population is concentrated in 5% of the land mass.[ 1 ] People living in rural and remote communities often have ... within their legislated scope of practice.”[ 7 ] Table 1 shows the number of family physicians, specialists, nurse ... issues, which are relevant to the Canadian system:[ 20 ] (1) better match patient needs, (2) increase access, and (3) ...
Letters / BY: Marko Yurkovich, MD, CCFP December 2023
... that approximately 10% had a neoplastic lesion detected.[ 1 ] This underscores the importance of timely access to ... cancer.” Letters Re: Early-onset colorectal cancer (1) ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Nicola Y. Edwards, MHA January/February 2023
... for individuals, communities, and the health care system.[ 1 ] Since British Columbia declared a provincial public ... Hospital) with an opioid overdose over a 12-month period (1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019). This period was chosen to ... Corporation, Redmond, WA) and Tableau version 12.1 (Tableau Software, LLC, Seattle, WA). Results Population ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC April 2023
... there are over 5.3 million people in British Columbia,[ 1 ] and nearly one-quarter of them are women 45 years of age ... prompts the question: for a condition that affects nearly 1.3 million people in our province, why aren’t we talking ... hormones for longer than 5 years had a relative risk of 1.26 for developing breast cancer. As Dominus points out in ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC July/August 2023
... as a coauthor alongside Siobhan O’Connor [ Figure ].[ 1 ] The piece quickly sparked debate among publishers, ... a medical lens. Snippets of the result are shown in Boxes 1–3 , and as you can see, it both creates references and ...
Back Page / BY: David May, MD, CCFP October 2023
... Many of those names have also been recorded in print.[ 1 ] qathet Regional District surrounds the city of Powell ... for the Province of British Columbia from 1872 to 1879.[ 1 , 2 ] He was instrumental in both banning the potlatch and ... clear calls to action for leaders in health care.[ 6 ] On 1 June 2019, Doctors of BC announced it had signed a ...