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News, COVID-19 / BY: Sam Morris April 2021
... are encouraged to review their coverage options every 3 to 5 years or upon a life event to ensure they are equipped with ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Brian Deady, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... health care workers among on-duty hospital personnel,[ 1-5 ] others have not.[ 6 , 7 ] Mass COVID-19 screening of ... with the anticipated prevalence of 1%, a type 1 error of 5%, and absolute precision of 2% (1% ± 2% or 0% to 3%), a ... wards in our hospital based on published data.[ 1-5 , 8 , 11 ] While it is noteworthy that the study that ...
MDs To Be / BY: Maya de Vos, BSc January/February 2021
... care. Volatile anesthetics are documented to contribute 5% of the carbon footprint in the acute medical setting.[ 2 ] ... to reduce their carbon footprint in the operating room.[ 5 ] These include choosing a volatile anesthetic with a lower GWP and minimizing fresh gas flow.[ 5 ] The GWPs over 20 years (GWP 20 ) for commonly used ...
News May 2021
... for full rural benefits has been reduced from 6.0 to 1.5 points. The communities falling between 1.5 and 14.99 points will now be considered “C” designated ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jefferson Terry, MD PhD, FRCPC November 2021
... autopsy workload was similar to that reported elsewhere.[ 5 ] The mean gestational age at delivery was 20.1 weeks ... culture is performed in only up to 70% of cases.[ 5 ] Our study was not designed to assess the practice ... a rare cause of infection-related preterm birth and IUFD.[ 5 ] Accordingly, no cases of cytomegalovirus or other ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sanya Ranchal, BSc April 2021
... an ectopic pregnancy is a previous ectopic pregnancy.[ 4 , 5 ] Women with a prior ectopic pregnancy have a 10-times ... minimize the risk of interassay variability, which can be 5% to 10%.[ 10 ] Decreasing b-hCG levels strongly suggest a ... In a normal pregnancy, a gestational sac is visualized at 5 weeks gestation (3 weeks after conception), when it is 2 to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Hasina Samji, PhD, MSc June 2021
... health services they had accessed prior to the pandemic.[ 5 ] Although there has been an increase during the pandemic ... expensive, or difficult for young adults to find.[ 3 , 5 ] Declining physical activity, escalating sedentary ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM December 2021
... second school year of the COVID-19 response, with only 27.5% of grade 6 girls and boys completing the HPV two-dose ... DPT-containing series and other vaccines in infancy.[ 5 ] Doses given beginning at 18 months and at school entry ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... after the first dose (80.2% overall after dose 1).[ 4 , 5 ] No clinical trials have been able to judge how long ...
Clinical Articles / BY: L.S. Yefet, MD October 2021
... has been reported in 12.8% of opioid-naive patients.[ 5 ] An initial prescription of opioids carries a 5.3% risk of persistent opioid use at 1 year and a 2.9% risk ... and patient age and sex, and prescriber types. Methods A 5-year retrospective longitudinal analysis of all ...