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Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD December 2021
... walking, saying a sentence, and dressing independently.[ 1 ] That is worrisome, as this pandemic is even more ...
Letters / BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS January/February 2021
... which affects 12% to 15% of couples in Canada.[ 1 ] Physicians are disproportionately affected, as ...
MDs To Be / BY: Caleb A.N. Roda, MD April 2021
... and in more recent years, heart failure.[ 1-3 ] Cardiac implantations have been increasing globally due ... indications, and an aging population.[ 4 , 5 ] More than 1 million cardiac implants in 61 countries occurred during ...
MDs To Be / BY: Faizan Bhatia, MD June 2021
... of published articles, including downloads and citations.[ 1 , 2 ] As a result of the perceived benefits to and ... analysis was completed in R version 3.6.3 and STATA 12.1 (StataCorp, Texas, USA). Results We identified the top 100 ... of included medical journals are summarized in Table 1 . Included journals (n = 88) had a median H-index of 278 ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Linda Calvert, BScPT October 2021
... at the DIP joint. The worker returned for suture removal 1 week later. With the wound healing, the physician ... at one of WorkSafeBC’s certified hand therapy clinics, 1 month after his injury. On assessment, the hand therapist ... the Health Care Programs team at 604 232-7787 or toll-free 1 866 244-6404, or visit the hand therapy page at ...
News May 2021
... review. Changes to the Rural Retention Program Effective 1 April 2021, the changes are: A temporary reduction of the ... for a period of 12 months, effective retroactively to 1 April 2020. The Rural Business Cost Modifier (RBCM) is ... for full rural benefits has been reduced from 6.0 to 1.5 points. The communities falling between 1.5 and 14.99 ...
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 ... disease prevalence of hospital personnel to be 1%, based on the range of 0% to 14% reported in the literature.[ 1-9 , 11 , 12 ] For a cross-sectional study with the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Santabhanu Chakrabarti, MD, FRCPC, FCCS December 2021
... Quebec law and the federal legislation was introduced.[ 1 ] The number of reported cases increased 26.1% between 2018 and 2019, and all provinces have experienced ... increase in numbers since the law was introduced in 2016.[ 1 ] Cardiovascular conditions are present in 10.1% of ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD April 2021
... by a recent CMAJ article by Drs Cohen and Kiran.[ 1 ] As a female physician and a new mother, I am particularly ... The pay gap exists in higher-paying specialties as well.[ 1 ] Neither can the gender pay gap be explained by the fact ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD June 2021
... Stuart, MD. Vancouver: Page Two Books, 2021. ISBN 978-1-989603-89-5. Hardcover, 224 pages The mastermind behind ...