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Letters / BY: Colin Campin, MB, December 2012
... in systolic blood pressure of 10 mm Hg or more and 9% of 15 mm Hg or more.[ 1 ] Are such differences of clinical ...
Letters / BY: Michael J. Passmore, MD, July/August 2012
... helpful medication is re­duc­ed or withdrawn.[ 9 ] My experience has been that the benefits of judicious SGA ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... parties, commit to a program of evidence-based policy.”[ 9 ] Clearly alcohol-impaired driving is a major public health ... programs reduce impaired driving recidivism by 8% to 9%.[ 19 ] There is ample evidence that alcohol interlocks are ...
MDs To Be / BY: Katie Wiskar, MD, FRCPC October 2012
... tried to identify barriers to proper workplace nutrition.[ 9 ] The most commonly cited barrier was lack of time due to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Monika Hudoba, MD, FRCPC June 2012
... positive using SRA, while HIT was confirmed using SRA in 9% of patients (6/69) with an intermediate 4Ts score and in 39% of patients (9/23) with a high 4Ts score (P < .001). The number of ... the specificity of a very sensitive screening test.[ 9 ] In our study, the introduction of a 4Ts pretest clinical ...
Letters / BY: Richard A. Bebb, MD, ABIM, FRCPC January/February 2012
... comparable age group of 60 to 70 years, the results are 9.4% and 11.5% respectively, or an average of 10.5%. It is ... that the prevalence of hypogonadism increas­ed over the 9 years studied. It has been postulated that this may be ... but a disease condition worthy of medical attention.[ 9 ] As an analogy, would Dr Tevaarwerk suggest not treating ...
News September 2012
... times, which found that Canadians waited an average of 9.5 weeks from an appointment with a specialist to receiving treatment in 2011, up slightly from 9.3 weeks in 2010. Across all provinces and medical ...
MDs To Be / BY: Annika Klopp, BSc, April 2012
... who comes from a biomedical culture, among others.[ 8,9 ] To each interaction, medical students bring with them ... culture as the norm and health care culture as foreign.[ 9 ] This shifts the power of bicultural interactions into the ... a safe inter­action to be defined by the pa­tient.[ 4 , 9 ] Culturally safe care is providing care congruent with the ...
News / BY: Sinden Luciuk, July/August 2012
... beneficiary and a typical death claim can be paid within 9 business days of the insurer receiving the necessary ...
News March 2012
... p.m. This is the second health care award win in the past 9 months for the program; in June 2011 RACE received the ...