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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD November 2019
... timely care and support from local clinical counselors.[ 5 ] One family physician has commented that before the ... alleviating the feelings of burnout she was experiencing.[ 5 ]   Nurse in practice initiative Fraser Northwest’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John Fan March 2019
... pmol/L), and free triiodothyronine (FT3) of 46.1 pmol/L (3.5–6.5 pmol/L). Given that these laboratory values were not ... in relieving muscle cramps in hemodialysis patients.[ 5 ] High doses of biotin (5 to 30 mg/day) are recommended in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC July/August 2019
... or when people flush pills into the wastewater system.[ 3,5,10 ] Effluent released from wastewater treatment plants ... environments has been shown to contain a variety of CECs.[ 5,11-13 ] Conventional wastewater treatment partially removes ... at their Seattle and Sinclair Inlet/Bremerton sites of 1.5 ng/g, 1.2 ng/g, and 0.68 ng/g of meat (oral communication ...
MDs To Be / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD October 2019
... of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine has surfaced.[ 5 ] AI is a field that involves computers using data to ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... for driving under the influence, and more fatal crashes.[ 5 ] Furthermore, high taxes on cannabis have left plenty of ... 13 to 25 years old. Diagnosis: Cannabis use disorder, DSM-5 304.3.  Date of first visit: January 2015 to October 2017. ... years ago the average potency of smoked flower was 3% to 5% THC. In Colorado in 2015, the average THC level in legal ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM June 2019
... lymphadenopathy, or arthralgia around 7 to 10 days (range 5 to 30 days) following the MMR vaccine. These events are ... If a patient presents with measles-like symptoms within 5 to 30 days of receiving an MMR vaccine and does not have a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sarah Munro, PhD December 2019
... can create mistrust with their health care professionals.[ 5 ] In this context, health care professionals may need more ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC April 2019
... By the end of 2015, total traffic deaths had fallen 54.5%, and serious injuries had decreased 59.8%. Rather than ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Gordon Hoag, MD September 2019
... budget based on the 2019 Physician Master Agreement is $10.5 million.  Examples of past PQI projects include reducing ...
Letters / BY: Omid Kiamanesh, MD January/February 2019
... Median ischemic time was lower in BC donors (168 IQR [107.5, 228.0] min) compared with Canada (243 IQR [204.5, 291.0] min) and the US (244 IQR [217.3, 278.8] min) ( P < ...