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Editorials / BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC January/February 2022
... Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 [ 1 ] and WPATH’s Standards of Care for the Health of ... the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 .[ 1 ] The International Classification of Diseases-11 [ 4 ...
News / BY: Laura McLean October 2022
... earning years. The disability insurance you needed 3 or 5 years ago may not cover the expenses you have today. If you ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nicole J. Todd, MD, FRCSC March 2022
... contraception, similar to US rates for cisgendered women.[ 5 ] Another study conducted at a well-known ... desired having a family; 25% desired pregnancy.[ 5 ] The overall pregnancy rate among TGD people is not known. ... pregnancy, and 12% of them had accessed abortion.[ 5 ] Another US study identified a 5.3% pregnancy rate among a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC December 2022
... 1428 infectious syphilis cases were reported in BC (27.5 per 100 000 population, the highest on record in the last ... every 3–6 months for those with casual sexual partners.[ 5 ] For pregnant individuals, syphilis screening is ... anytime after week 35 for those planning home births).[ 5 , 6 ] Pregnant persons with ongoing risk, such as new ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ava Azhir, BSc Pharm, ACPR May 2022
... cost savings of the model were also demonstrated.[ 5 ] In 1995, BC formally incorporated outpatient ... therapy (34%), discontinuation of antibiotic therapy (5%), and other changes including changes to alternative IV ... and consisted of the following: 1.0% worsening infection, 5.2% related hospitalization, 4.0% unrelated hospitalization, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jennifer Balfour, MD, FRCPC September 2022
... administered early in the school year.[ 1 ] Alberta saw a 5% drop in measles immunization rates persisting into 2021.[ ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Jiwei Li, MD March 2022
... not be so good. Sadly, this is the situation for over 1.5 million Canadians who live with frailty, a state of ... fit in a person’s purse or pocket by printing an 8.5 × 11 page and folding it in half twice. Color and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick H.P. Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... age leads to the highest rates of chronic infection.[ 5 , 6 ] Other modalities of HBV transmission include ... chronic infection, but this risk decreases to less than 5% in patients who are exposed to HBV as an adult. In the ... mg/24 h, moderate dipstick proteinuria, low phosphate < 2.5 mg/dl, or dialysis patients).[ 20 ] Pegylated interferon ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2022
... called Human Motivation. The professor, Richard Koestner,[ 5 ] taught us how autonomous motivation can be either ...
Premise / BY: Karen Trollope-Kumar, MD, PhD, CCFP April 2022
... their first diagnosis by their primary care physician.[ 5 ] Yet too many physicians feel unprepared to diagnose and ... 6 , 7 ] Canadian medical students receive only 3 to 5 hours of education about eating disorders in their ...