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Clinical Articles / BY: Ray Markham, MB ChB, MRCGP, FCFP December 2021
... care and toward approaches that are socially accountable[ 1 ] and reflect the needs and strengths of all health ... a holistic care system that is socially accountable,[ 1 ] culturally safe,[ 4 ] and relationship based. By sharing ... is not only team based but also socially accountable,[ 1 ] culturally safe,[ 4 ] and relationship based. To achieve ...
Letters / BY: Roger Seldon, MBChB, MD June 2021
... to allow treatment under the Adult Guardianship Act (AGA) (1. self-neglect, 2. risks, already experienced—e.g., loss ... was explored in more detail. What if she’d meant: (1) I’ll be fine because I wish to die from this illness, or ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD September 2021
... and billing lab tests in keeping with the Act. Preamble C.1 of the Doctors of BC Guide to Fees states: “Benefits” ... testosterone, DHEAS, hs-CRP, anti-TPO, homocysteine, IGF-1. Female patient: CBC, ferritin, Macro +/− micro urine, ... testosterone, DHEAS, hs-CRP, anti-TPO, homocysteine, IGF-1. Previously, in order to recover funds from the ordering ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael R. Lyon, MD, ABOM December 2021
Like type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes has long been considered a ... management to prevent vascular disease and neuropathy.[ 1 ] The assumption that type 2 diabetes is irreversible is ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC January/February 2021
... and reducing in-classroom learning and child care.[ 1 ] These measures were effective in helping slow ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... 87% of hospitalizations due to self-inflicted injuries.[ 1 ] Parachute and Alberta’s Injury Prevention Centre found ... British Columbia Research Ethics Board (#H13-01321). From 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2017, hospitalization data for all ... Discharge Abstract Database, BC Ministry of Health. From 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2017, hospitalizations were ...
Obituaries / BY: Jack and Ruth Albrecht July/August 2021
... born on 30 October 1932 in rural Lebret, Saskatchewan. On 1 February 2021, he succumbed to COVID-19 complications as a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jefferson Terry, MD PhD, FRCPC November 2021
... and other health professionals involved in their care.[ 1 , 2 ] As part of the perinatal autopsy examination, the ... Autopsy reports for all noncoronial autopsy cases between 1 August 2014 and 31 December 2019 with “amniotic fluid ... of fetal tissue), intrauterine demise occurred more than 1 day prior to delivery based on clinical history and/or ...
Premise / BY: Hannah Lishman, PhD March 2021
... 5 years of age, most dramatically evident in infants under 1 year. Between 1996 and 2016, BC saw a 77% reduction in antibiotic prescriptions for infants.[ 1 ] This has been mainly due to reductions in antibiotic use ... between antibiotic prescribing in infants under 1 year and incidence of asthma in children under 5 years at ...
Premise / BY: Christopher O.Y. Li, BSc May 2021
... that the life expectancy of Black men also fell by up to 1.4 years following the release of the study’s details, in ... mistrust in the health care system that remains today.[ 1 ] One contemporary study[ 2 ] showed that Black patients ...