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Clinical Articles / BY: Elizabeth Taylor, MD, FRCSC June 2018
... as an increase in term delivery rate from 1.4% to 74.4%.[ 9 ] Uterine fibroids and endometrial adhesions may also be ... has proven superior to treatment with aspirin alone (42.9% live birth rate). The combination of heparin and low-dose ... loss. One study identified chronic endometritis in 9% of women with recurrent miscarriage, and found a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andy Jiang, BSc December 2018
... poisoning hospitalizations increased from 31.4 to 35.9 per 100 000 ( P = .04) from 2008 to 2013, unintentional poisoning deaths increased from 7.2 to 9.2 per 100 000 ( P = .004), and all-intents poisoning ... with age, with the lowest rate for children age 5 to 9 years (3.8 per 100 000) and the highest rate for adults ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Taylor, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2018
... programs in the ED have been described previously.[ 9-12 ] While the vaccination rates in the ED for pneumococcal ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Ben Jong, MD April 2018
... of AC joint stabilization arthroscopically.[ 8 , 9 , 10 ] The one major limitation of these studies is the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Carla Pajak, MD, FRCSC September 2018
... with a higher risk of complications and costs.[ 5 , 9 , 12 ] Patients with acute cholecystitis who are discharged ... Conversion to open procedures was required in only 3 (2.9%) of all the cholecystectomies. The preoperative status of ... had a subsequent open conversion rate of only 9.2% and an overall mortality rate of 1.5%.[ 13 ] Perhaps the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP November 2018
... retinopathy, nephropathy, and peripheral neuropathy.[ 9-13 ] Early improved glucose control slows progression to these endpoints.[ 9 , 14-17 ] An association between macrovascular disease and ... FRCPC, Chair, TI Education Working Group, 21 March 2017, 9:05 p.m.). BC Pharmacare coverage The most recent Diabetes ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ekua Yorke, MD, FRCSC April 2018
... with type 2 diabetes and a BMI of 30.0 kg/m 2 to 34.9 kg/m 2 if hyperlycemia is inadequately controlled despite ... of the stomach that has been linked with hunger control.[ 9 ] A reduction in hunger thus augments the restrictive ...
News January/February 2018
... school or a designated faculty member.[ 3 ] Only 35.9% of students were satisfied with the outcome of having ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Peter Thorpe, PGDip October 2018
... delays or changes in how paramedics are dispatched after 9-1-1 calls are received ( Figure 2 ). How the app works ... system. When a sudden cardiac arrest is reported through 9-1-1, BCEHS dispatchers automatically send a notification of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Constantin Shuster, MD June 2018
... Columbia’s 2016 risk-adjusted 30-day readmission rate of 9.7% was significantly higher than the national average of 9.1% ( Figure 1 ).[ 5 ] The readmission rates in Saskatchewan (9.7%) and Ontario (9.2%) were also higher than the national ...