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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 ...
Letters / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, May 2016
... after receiving an appointment for their next INR. 7.    If the INR is < 1.5 or > 4.0 (i.e., critical lab ... all within-range (1.5–4.0) INRs using the computer.[ 7 ]  The fee for a lab INR is $12.07 in BC. The cost of ... point-of-care testing test strips and software dosing is $7.00 per INR. The expected TTR in this system is > 75%, based ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel J. Lithwick, MHA, April 2016
... athletes only and without the use of a 12-lead ECG.[ 2,7 ] The different approaches stem mainly from a debate about ... athletes.[ 8 ] The incidence of SCD was found to be 0.7 per 100 000 person-years and it was determined that only ... screening for young competitive athletes since 1982,[ 7 ] and the ESC guidelines are based on the same ...
News / BY: Dirk van Niekerk, MD, FRCPC October 2016
... specificity when compared to clinician-collected samples.[ 7 ] Self–collection based screening is not intended to ...