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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc June 2004
... British Columbia. The risk that the virus will move into BC during 2004 remains high. There is also a risk that BC residents will become infected while traveling outside the ... Fyfe MD, FRCPCC —Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control West ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Edna Durbach, Ed.D October 2004
... In 2000, members of the parent advisory committee at BC’s Children’s Hospital (part of Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of BC) were frustrated by the difficulties and delays in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... without the expensive equipment available in an urban centre. As well, the urban physicians were able to see the ... kind of consultation. For example, in a number of small BC communities without resident psychiatrists, mental health ... victim could not be evacuated by air from a regional BC community recently because of fog, a neurosurgeon in an ...
Editorials / BY: Jean Hlady, MD, FRCPC March 2004
... As the executive director of a children’s advocacy centre in the United States has stated, “Knowledge and ... —Jean Hlady, MD Director, Child Protection Service Unit, BC’s Children’s Hospital Editorials Child maltreatment, ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC November 2004
In the October 2004 issue of  BCMJ , the  BC Centre for Disease Control  reported marked elevation of ... of herbal origin has been well documented. [4-6] The  BC Medical Journal [1]  and a review article [7]  listed ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC September 2004
... interest of both patients and providers of health care in BC. VIRAP (rapid diagnosis of viral respiratory infections) ... the laboratories at Women’s and Children’s Health Centre (WCHC) and BCCDC, establishing the concept of ... Control, Women’s and Children’s Health Centre of BC —Judith Isaac-Renton, MD, DPH, FRCPC Director, BCCDC ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2004
... of Anahim Lake and Nimpo Lake. [10]  According to BC Vital Statistics, the average total population of LHA 49 ... who drive to Anahim Lake for a weekly doctors’ clinic. BC Vital Statistics routinely standardizes LHA data using the ... also like to thank Peter Schaub, cartographer for the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Christine E. Jarchow, MSW March 2004
... reports result in a child protection investigation. [4] In BC, child welfare definitions, reporting laws, and ... suspected cases of child maltreatment to authorities. In BC, the  Child, Family and Community Service Act  requires ... instances, referral to a larger and more comprehensive centre is advisable.” Role of SCAN units British Columbia ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
...  In 2002 and 2003, the STD/AIDS Control Division of the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Sexual Health and ... met. The pretest counseling guidelines currently in use in BC [1]  were designed to promote physician-patient dialogue ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Judith Isaac-Renton, MD, DPH, FRCPC November 2003
... agents such as Giardia and Cryptosporidium. [5]  BC also has had the highest rate of enteric ... water, particularly for small water systems across BC and Canada. Jurisdictional interactions associated with ... Peck, MB, BCHIR, FRCPC — Perry Kendall, MBBS, FRCPC BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control ...