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Shared Care Committee /
BY: Jiwei Li, MD
March 2022
... people living with frailty. It is projected that well over 2 million Canadians may be living with frailty within the next 10 years.[ 2 ] Scope of impact and prevention With increased ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: British Columbia COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee
May 2022
... has been limited due to loss of activity against the BA.2 variant of Omicron. On 23 March 2022, due to increased drug ... being over 55 years of age or having a comorbidity.[ 1 , 2 ] Adults were offered treatment if they had mild to ... and 5.3% versus 0.7% for remdesivir ).[ 1 , 2 ] As Omicron causes less-severe disease than Delta and ...
Letters /
BY: Ruth Habte, MD
September 2022
... to young people (n = 43 713) at a cost of US$28 million.[ 2 ] The program demonstrated a reduction in teen pregnancy by ... in $70 million of estimated governmental savings.[ 2 ] In 2015, a Canadian cost model found roughly 180 000 ...
Billing Tips /
BY: Janet Evans, MD
December 2022
... and is not a benefit under the Plan” (Preamble A.2.vii.). It further defines the requirements of an adequate ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Haile Zapata-Dixon
June 2022
... of whom 4.9 million were returning Canadian residents.[ 2 ] Since 2015, transnational travel between Canada and ... (n = 41/620, 7%), and dengue (n = 18/620, 3%) [ Table 2 ]. Among travelers who required outpatient management, the ... most (71%) of the active tuberculosis exposures [ Table 2 ]: India (n = 50, 29%), China (n = 45, 26%), and the ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP
October 2022
... is also associated with low muscle quantity and quality.[ 2 ] This loss of muscle mass and strength is involuntary, age ... strength), with more emphasis on loss of muscle strength.[ 2 ] Pathological changes in this important metabolically ... risk and need for long-term care placement.[ 2 ] Recognition of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity by ...
Editorials /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
January/February 2022
... 20s to the majority giving birth in their in their 30s.[ 2 ] To demonstrate just how much we’ve changed, consider ... the odds of a live birth at age 45 are less than 2%. Canada’s fertility rate is at an all-time low at 1.4 ... published in December 2021 made headlines for the 19.2% of respondents who “would have fewer children or later ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 /
BY: Anthony W. Chow, MD, FACP, FRCPC
May 2022
... in Canada lagged behind the United States by a decade.[ 2 ] In the 1980s, due to health care reform and managed care ... diseases trainees to extend their fellowships by 1 to 2 years in order to pursue dual subspecialty certification. ... across all five health regions of the province [ Table 2 ]. VGH, St. Paul’s Hospital, and Surrey Memorial Hospital ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC
September 2022
... coupled with an aging population and treatment advances,[ 2 ] caseload and complexity in oncology are increasing at a ... burnout: (1) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion, (2) increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of ... from the analysis. The demographics are provided in Table 2 . In total, 241 of 333 (72%) radiation oncologists in the ...