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Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Fung, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... diabetes. Self-adjustment of insulin dosing Traditionally, health care providers aimed to train people with diabetes to ... can be achieved should be controlled by the patient. As health care providers, we should aim to help patients become ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kathryn Hornby, DMD, MLS, CertMinf July/August 2004
... ), which was developed at Stanford University. Consumer health informatics Consumers are increasingly searching for health information on the Internet. [4]  Many of the ... and provides access to drug information, directories of health organizations, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: G. Butt, MHSc March 2004
... C (HCV) as identified through British Columbia’s Public Health Information System between 1992 and 2002. The majority ... This problem has not been effectively addressed by our health care system. BC Hepatitis Services, a provincially ... launched in partnership with the province’s six health authorities. Through coordination, partnership ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Charmaine Kim-Sing, MD, ChB, FRCPC October 2004
... 2 years. [11]  The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health recommends that women aged 40 to 49 should discuss the ... of breast cancer risk can help women make important health care decisions. Clinical Articles Breast cancer risk ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc June 2004
... in BC Physicians must report the following to the medical health officer in their area: • Patients who have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: E. Jane Garland, MD, FRCPC December 2004
... part of the implementation of the Child and Youth Mental Health Plan for British Columbia, [18]  the Ministry of ... for children in the province’s community mental health system, and support for primary care physicians and ... depression makes it likely that specialized mental health teams and professionals will become involved more ...
Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD January/February 2004
... Horse Highway?) Perhaps they will take a realistic look at health care and perhaps the Minister of Health will acknowledge that universal health care also means timely health care. Perhaps they will ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC September 2004
... for standards of practice. PIPCP, when needed, supports health care providers in all health authorities in their efforts to prevent and control ... is being strengthened. Specifically, links between public health and institutional infection control are under review. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2004
... in all of British Columbia ( Table 1 ). [6] Unfortunately, health data are not routinely collected or analyzed at the ... rural community level in Canada. According to the World Health Organization and other researchers, this lack of public health information at the community level is one reason a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Fung, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... another aspect of this study that measures the needs and health care costs in all people with type 1 diabetes, please ...