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Clinical Articles / BY: Pankaj Dhawan, MD, FRCPC, November 2006
... brain injury and who live in the Vancouver Coastal Health region. Referrals can be made from emergency ... will be used, and to decrease their dependence on the health care professionals by limiting the visits to the ... in a community-based program funded by the Ministry of Health called Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions. ...
Letters / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2006
... extend beyond the individual to improve the collective health of our communities. There is a body of medical ... reduction, and clinical intervention. The BCMA Council on Health Promotion is interested in striking a new committee to ... Munro at the BCMA.   Bill Mackie, MD Chair, Council on Health Promotion Letters Addiction medicine ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2006
... offered me time to reflect on one facet of our current health care crisis. After the first 30 minutes of what I now ... vulnerable citizens at the expense of whatever remaining health reserves they possess and, in some (often highly ... legislators to overhaul their own previously dysfunctional health care systems with success. However, as citizens and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: G. Ross Baker, PhD, September 2006
... a prolonged hospital stay, or death. AEs are caused by health care management (the care provided to patients) rather ... disease process. Not all AEs are avoidable given current health care knowledge. The Canadian Adverse Events Study ... Reviews were done in two stages. First, nurses or health data personnel reviewed the records for the presence ...
Premise / BY: Faith E. Hayman, LLB, BA, BEd April 2006
... is critical to most people’s financial survival. When health issues interfere with an individual’s ability to ... at many levels of their lives: in addition to the loss of health and the loss of one’s ability to earn a livelihood, ... the nature of an insurance contract tied to a person’s health status thus: “few contracts could affect one’s ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) July/August 2006
Patients are exposed to many sources of health information. While not all sources are of the same ... to bring the best available scientific evidence to bear on health concerns. Yet this process is not necessarily mirrored by other groups offering health advice. The use of complementary and alternative ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2006
... data for over a decade on how BC youth view their own health. It is unique data, acquired through questionnaires in ... has been extremely important in developing policy about health education and health care for youth. However, the scope of youth activities ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD January/February 2006
... disease, longitudinal care, palliative care, mental health, and nursing home visits, among others, were ranked ... filling in forms, and other paperwork. • Fund preventive health counselling. These are all areas of significant ...
Premise / BY: Michael K. McIsaac, BA, May 2006
... of Aboriginal patients. I have yet to attend a mental health conference where the theme was mental health. Rather, the themes inevitably describe what mental health isn’t. I would not want my personal wellness to be ...
Editorials / BY: Dr J. Mark Ansermino, FFA, MMed, MSc, FRCPC September 2006
... [2]  Every day, thousands of errors occur in the Canadian health care system. Fortunately, most do not result in ... intentionally, but with the increasing complexity of health care delivery, our patients are increasingly exposed ... is likely to be greater. [3]  Opportunities to im¬prove health outcomes in the outpatient setting are likely to ...