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Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... in Canada in 1995 by the Ontario Ministry of Health.[ 5 ] The NCA assesses patients using a structured approach. A ... For instance, postmenopausal women with diabetes have a 2.5 times greater risk of having urinary incontinence than ...
Letters / BY: David D.W. Twa, BSc October 2017
... of marijuana legalization has come into question.[ 5 ] I have faith that we will be prepared if the Canadian ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Lai, MD, FRCPC April 2017
... guidelines recommend a target HbA1c level of 7.1% to 8.5% for patients with limited life expectancy, a higher level ... even those not known to cause withdrawal symptoms. Step 5: Monitoring, support, and documentation Patient monitoring ... be withdrawn, (4) planning and initiating withdrawal, and (5) monitoring and documenting the process. Evidence is ...
Obituaries / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2017
... was born in New Westminster on 2 January 1938 as a 3.5-lb premature baby and endured the struggles of being a ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care .[ 5 ] As in his presentations[ 6 ] on the topic, he uses ... ourselves on the patient’s side of the stethoscope.”[ 5 ] Our patients Of course, our colleagues are not our only ...
Premise / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... and was still taking high doses of hydromorphone, a drug 5 times more potent than plain morphine (e.g., 6 mg of ... psychiatric comorbidities. Finally, Colman and colleagues[ 5 ] have addressed depression and reviewed factors that ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP March 2016
... confirmatory TB testing, including the Mantoux or 5 TU PPD TB skin test (TST) or an interferon gamma release ...
Letters / BY: Vandad Yousefi, MD, CCFP, FHM, May 2016
... numerous patient-, provider-, and system-related factors.[ 5 ] Remuneration was only one of many reasons why many ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC October 2016
... virus (CHIKV) was suspected. Treatment with prednisone (5 mg B.I.D.) led to a dramatic and early resolution of ... in the Americas were identified in the Caribbean,[ 5 , 6 ] and by May 2014 almost 60 000 cases had been ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lisa Eunyoung Lee, January/February 2016
... a consequence. NMOSD affects more females than males,[ 5,6 ] is seen in mixed ethnic populations, and often involves ... been studied in south-east Wales,[ 4 ] Germany,[ 5 ] South Korea,[ 6 ] United States,[ 7 ] Brazil,[ 8 ] ... with initial symptoms at age 18 or younger. It took 5 years to collect data on 10 pediatric-onset cases referred ...