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Clinical Articles / BY: Maggie Wong, PharmD, ACPR June 2022
... massive pleural effusion, known immunosuppression, health care–associated pneumonia, or aspiration pneumonia ... group. The mean Acute Physiologic Assessment and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score was 10 (approximately 10% ... resistance is a looming threat to our society’s health. Physicians need simple strategies for antimicrobial ...
Letters / BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC September 2022
... we emphasize that the current standards of care guiding health care providers in BC ( Standards of Care Version 7 )[ ... child. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health is expected to publish version 8 of its Standards of ... to follow version 7, we are confident the Ministry of Health will follow suit with version 8, which will then ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: O. Maheshwari, MD November 2022
Background Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health conditions were the leading cause of disability in ... 1 ] with one in five Canadians experiencing a mental health condition each year, and one in two Canadians affected ... In British Columbia one in four people experience a mental health condition each year.[ 3 ] Family physicians were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Braedon Aujla, BSc September 2022
... and what treatments they may require. Clinical Articles Health care access and injury patterns in patients following ...
Editorials / BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC January/February 2022
Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC Transgender health is a rapidly evolving field that is moving away from ... in the classification manuals published by the World Health Organization, American Psychiatric Association, and World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). As you will read in this series of six ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Emily Wiesenthal, BA March 2022
... or lead to permanent sterility, it is essential that health care providers counsel TGD people about the options ... respondents had not discussed fertility desires with their health care providers.[ 4 ] We review the existing ... options for TGD people and emphasize the need for health care professionals to broach fertility planning with ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD May 2022
Dr Ramneek Dosanjh How do we promote health when our health care system—its design and implementation, structure ... to, is this the best we can do? When the foundation of our health care system depends on primary care access, yet ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD July/August 2022
... a difference to our patients, to each other, and to our health care system. And today we have the power to make a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Kimi Nomura Schwab September 2022
... an incorporated company, you will receive coverage for health care, wage loss, and rehabilitation benefits in the ... of Pension, Retirement, Annuity, and Other Income from a health authority. You provide your services to a health authority under a salary agreement (as described in ...
News December 2022
... more effective at reducing the risk of serious long-term health impacts compared with the current first step in ... of hospitalization and experienced fewer serious adverse health events that resulted in death, functional disability, ...