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News November 2021
... it. New UBC research has found that 75% of patients 5 years old and younger had experienced cisplatin-related ... Three years after starting therapy, 75% of patients 5 years old and younger and 48% of patients older than 5 had experienced cisplatin-related hearing loss. One year ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Catherine Zhou, MD, MSc July/August 2021
... and significant complications after abdominal surgery,[ 1-5 ] with an incidence rate as high as 2.4%.[ 1 ] Adhesions ... is the indication for 37.3% of emergency laparotomies.[ 5 ] For patients who require hospital admission, the average ... of patients in the preimplementation group (95% CI, −5.722 to −0.645; P = 0.015). Secondary outcomes Successful ...
Letters / BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS January/February 2021
... that since my previous correspondence several years ago,[ 5 ] I have had successful treatment. Unfortunately, despite ...
MDs To Be / BY: Tristan Jeffery, BSc October 2021
... principle in their application of Two-Eyed Seeing.[ 5 , 8 , 10 , 11 ] The four Rs are respect, relevance, ... 10 ] Other authors described the use of an ethical space,[ 5 , 11 , 14 , 16 ] a concept that allows multiple ways of ... some studies to provide cultural context and guidance.[ 3-5 , 7-9 , 15 ] Committees consisted of community members, ...
Premise / BY: Hannah Lishman, PhD March 2021
... an exemplary decline in antibiotic use in children under 5 years of age, most dramatically evident in infants under 1 ... 2000 and 2014 the incidence of asthma in children under 5 years declined by 26%, from 27.3 to 20.2 diagnoses per 1000 ... under 1 year and incidence of asthma in children under 5 years at the provincial population level, with a projected ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB June 2021
... was my even earlier “hands-on” experience as a 5-year-old Crown witness (then one of the youngest in legal ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2021
... program in any emergency department in Canada in 2014.[ 5 ] By the end of that year, the program had been implemented ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul J. Oxley, MD, FRCSC October 2021
... initiatives have greatly improved outpatient success,[ 5-7 ] and most surgical specialties have tried to identify ... Figure 1 ]. The average number of transfers per month was 5.8 (range 2–10) [ Figure 2 ]. The transfer rate per month ... while medical and patient selection factors led to 5.7% (8/140) and 4.3% (6/140) of all transfers, respectively. ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Janice Mason, MD, BSc, Dipl Sport Med (CASEM), May 2021
... advisors contacts you. Typically, your commitment will be 5 to 10 minutes, and you may bill fee code 19930 for your ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sarah B. Henderson, PhD November 2021
... and Manitoba, during which at least 780 people died.[ 5 ] In more recent years, the 2010 heat wave in Quebec was ...