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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM December 2021
... canceling appointments for fear of contracting SARS-CoV-2. As many routine services were canceled or deferred and ... doses, and less effect on the infant series beginning at 2 months of age. Regions most affected by COVID-19, including ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Laidlaw, MD, FRCPC April 2021
... treatment can be delivered, unless it is an emergency.[ 2 ] Capacity to consent is specific to the treatment being ... are different scopes of a representative’s authority.[ 2 ] However, in most cases, patients who are incapable of ... placing them in long-term care facilities. Section 59.2 states that the designated agency (i.e., health authority) ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Hasina Samji, PhD, MSc June 2021
... pandemic and has not yet recovered to prepandemic levels.[ 2 , 3 ] Young adults have been more likely than others to ...
Editorials / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2021
... pain management has been proposed as a basic human right,[ 2 ] and physicians need to have the skills to prescribe ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC January/February 2021
... food insecurity, increased violence, and discrimination.[ 2 , 3 ] These harms can accrue over time, particularly for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Giselle Hunt, BSc May 2021
... it one of the most prevalent gynecological disorders.[ 2 ] The extent of disease varies considerably from isolated ... endometriomas manifesting as fixed adnexal masses.[ 2 , 21 ] The pelvic examination is limited in identifying ... for the diagnosis of ovarian endometriomas [ Figure 2 ].[ 22 ] The ability to detect deep infiltrating ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Brian Deady, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... of 1%, a type 1 error of 5%, and absolute precision of 2% (1% ± 2% or 0% to 3%), a sample size of 96 was needed.[ 13 ] ... for COVID-19. Because there were no positive cases, the 2-week telephone follow-up was not conducted. Discussion This ...
Letters / BY: Thomas M. D’Arcy, LRCP&SI, FRCPC December 2021
... in the mind’s eye, somewhat as if one was seeing them.[ 2 ] My experience with aphantasia began with a report by the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM March 2021
... (e.g., hobbies, pets, smoking, travel, home renovations).[ 2 ] If a patient develops a disease and you or they are ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2021
... risk of postoperative complications and death.[ 1 , 2 ] As the pandemic begins to ebb in many countries, there is ... the prevalence of active cases was 0.20% in Canada and 2.74% in the United States. At a local active case prevalence ...