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Clinical Articles / BY: Jan Klimas, MSc, PhD September 2020
... Bohdan Nosyk, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, 1 August 2018) as a result of unsafe opioid prescribing and ... Canadian data on prescription opioid use are dated,[ 1 , 2 ] but recent US data suggest that more than one-third ... pertinent, for a positive likelihood ratio (LR) range of 6.1 to 17.0, which indicates that if opioids were prescribed he ...
Obituaries / BY: Cathy Clelland, MD November 2020
... Doctors’ Hospital on Wednesday, 26 August 2020, at 1:30 a.m. with her family by her side. Born 3 August 1963 in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP March 2020
... in Metro Vancouver and southern Vancouver Island.[ 1 ] Along the north coast, many settlements in Haida Gwaii, ... as well as Kitimat and Prince Rupert, are near sea level.[ 1 ] Displacement Under current provincial estimations, sea ... around BC are projected to rise by 0.5 metre by 2050, and 1.0 metre by 2100, making many low-lying lands vulnerable to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brett Baumann, MD October 2020
... and additives such as glycerol and propylene glycol.[ 1 ] Use of these aerosolized devices (colloquially termed ... chest in July 2017 revealed no abnormalities [ Figure 1 ], but a CT scan with contrast in November 2017 revealed ... after the patient’s initial CT scan demonstrated an FEV 1 of 2.6 litres (90% predicted) and FVC of 3.7 litres (95% ...
Letters / BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC January/February 2020
... of population average breast density decreasing with age,[ 1 ] it is correct that we did not investigate the possibility ... cancer for combined estrogen and progestin ranges from 1.3 to 2.0 for 5+ and 10+ years of usage respectively.[ 2 , 3 ... from 1988–2013, which demonstrated a relative risk of 1.73 after an initial false positive.[ 5 ] In clarification ...
News April 2020
... a practitioner of the facility. The BCP came into effect 1 April 2020. Eligible physicians are those who provide ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
... information, visit www.painbc.ca/supportgroups , or call 1 844 880-PAIN (7246). News COVID-19 Chronic pain: Online ...
Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2020
... opioid sparing approaches to pain management.”[ 1 ] We share the authors’ concern with the current ...
News March 2020
... and free of errors. The external review involves 1) regular mail sent to a random sample of BC physicians and ...
Council on Health Promotion, COVID-19 / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2020
... was the provision of adequate indoor ventilation.[ 1 ] Reduction of infectious diseases is not the only health ...