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Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... case fatality rates as high as 30%.[ 3 ] Infection among health-care workers during outbreaks is also common (20% to ... expected are affected with respiratory illness, the local health unit should be notified. Suspect outbreaks, when there ... ILI within a 7-day period, should be reported to the local health unit within 1 working day or sooner. Do not wait for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T.F. Handley, MD June 2000
... control of the profession. We have seen the creation of a Health Professions Council, soon followed by a Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs that made recommendations to restructure the governance of the health professions, including medicine. It is no accident ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Saw, MD, FRCPC October 2000
... of cardiomyopathies were revised in 1995 by the World Health Organization/International Society and Federation of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Hansen, MLA June 2000
... British sit-com Yes Minister showed the minister of health visiting a brand new hospital that has 350 ... worse. Where is the long-term strategy? At present, health authorities are not even told what their annual budget ... boasting about how much money they spend. What counts are health outcomes—not a government’s ability to aimlessly ...
Editorials / BY: David Doty, MD June 2000
... public, and continued to promise free, all-encompassing health care while borrowing astronomical amounts to provide it. Thus was born the Cadillac health-care system on the Chevrolet income, using borrowed ... sustain such costs any more, started cutting funding for health care. However, they were very careful to do this ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leila Srour, MD January/February 2000
... vaccine are determined around February by the World Health Organization. The 1997–98 influenza season was ... of vaccination and management of outbreaks in health-care facilities during the 1997–98 influenza season. ... network of sentinel physicians, acute-care hospitals, and health unit reports of influenza-like illness (ILI) activity ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... would be a good start. The promise of equalizing access to health care for urban and rural populations will likely be ... the delivery of continuing medical education to rural health professionals in their own communities. This negates the need for rural health professionals to leave their communities in order to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Steve Adilman, MD November 2000
Introductio n The Vancouver Native Health Society (VNHS) Medical Clinic was established in 1991 ... Nations people. It is a non-profit, provincially funded health centre located in the most impoverished community in ... are the result of the decay of all the determinants of health. The main factors include poverty, social isolation, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... genetic and growth factor techniques. The provision of health care will occur in the setting of more planned and ... be deployed in other major diseases. The complexity of health care, the need for comprehensive approaches from ... personal data may be encoded on a chip embedded in their health-care cards. Increasingly, other health professionals ...
Editorials / BY: Bill Cavers, MD June 2000
... bulge is now reaching into their 50s, and from this age on health-care expenditures almost double for every 10 years of ... effect of this exponential increase in per-capita health-care expense, plus the increase in the total number of older people will dramatically impact total health-care costs. Major research facilities have predicted ...