Point Counterpoint /
BY: Will Offley, RN
December 2016
... Authority,[ 6 ] the Provincial Health Services Authority,[ 7 ] or the Fraser Health Authority[ 8 ] keep such records. ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ahmad Abdullah, MD,
April 2016
... who continued to smoke and only 5% in those who quit.[ 7 ] Other treatment strategies are broadly divided into ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Jeffrey Quon, DC, MHSc, PhD, FCCSC
October 2016
... health care disciplines varies widely.[ 2 , 5 , 6 , 7 ] Known gaps between guidelines and routine health care ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC
December 2016
... to be over 200 Bq/m 3 and five were over 750 Bq/m 3 .[ 7 ] BC has taken steps to reduce radon exposure. In late ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC
September 2016
... and helps to stratify pregnancy risk in a broad sense.[ 7 ] A more granular risk assessment can be made using risk ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael Stanger, MD,
March 2016
... 1-year interval in an article by Browne and colleagues.[ 7 ] In the case of shoulder patients, the final assessment ... month results with the 12-month results for hips (61.7% versus 80.5%) and for knees (54.0% versus 68.9%). This ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Derek Smith, MD, FRCSC
November 2016
... is positive in 96% to 100% of acute ruptures.[ 7 , 8 , 9 ] Other physical findings include a palpable tendon ...
Articles /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
December 2016
... babies born per 1000 women age 35 to 39, compared with 45.7 per 1000 women age 20 to 24.[ 17 ] In British Columbia, the ... we know a female fetus has her lifetime maximum of 6 to 7 million oogonia.[ 21 ] Hansen and colleagues found that a ... 15 169 trophectoderm biopsies from 2701 patients, only 20.7% of embryos from women age 29 were abnormal, compared with ...
Physician Spotlight /
BY: Sterling Haynes, MD
July/August 2016
... as many skaters headed inside. It was Sunday afternoon, 7 December 1941, and we all changed our skates and headed ... He opened an office in Vancouver and practised there until 7 December 1941, the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor. In ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS
January/February 2016
... of dissatisfaction with career and specialty choice.[ 6,7 ] Among Canadian surgeons, on-call burden and lack of ... (FTE) so that the total work time still equaled 7.0 FTEs. On-call duties, OR time, endoscopy time, and minor ...