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News September 2013
... send out clinical reports to copied physicians went from 7 days to 2 days, and the time for finalized clinical reports to be entered went from 7 days to 1 day. HEARTis has been implemented at Royal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tyler W. Smith, MD, MHSc, FRCPC April 2013
... antithrombin deficiencies remaining of uncertain value.[ 4-7 ]  More importantly, studies have yet to show any benefit ... important outcomes for the patient or cost-effectiveness.[ 7,8 ] In addition to being expensive (the five-test panel ... see at least 50 patients a year with thrombosis and 64% (7 of 11) stated they order HT testing between 10 and 49 times ...
News&Notes / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2013
... heart rate for cardiovascular fitness; and obtain at least 7 hours of quality sleep every night.  Collecting data with ... ( www.ehealth.med.ubc.ca/resources/resourcesmobileapps ).[ 7 ] The vision behind the project is threefold: •    To ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hans Krueger, PhD, July/August 2013
... rate of 1.35 per 100 000 for women age 20 to 24 and 7.24 per 100 000 for women age 25 to 29. An incidence rate of ... and after the implementation of cytological screening.[ 7 ] Only populations with a minimum 15-year follow-up period ... infections gradually become more prominent with age: 7.5% in wo­men younger than 25, 12.4% in women 25 to 34, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP March 2013
... aged 85 and older living in residential care facilities,[ 7 ] and up to one-third of deaths in BC occurring in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andrew J. Coldman, PhD November 2013
... do not return for further screening in the next 5 years.[ 7 ] Methods Using data from the Screening Mammography Program ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Fleming, MD May 2013
... experience in nontraditional community settings.[ 4-7 ] One of these opportunities is the integrated community ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP January/February 2013
... to encourage kids to be active. Studies show that only 7% of youth currently meet the target of 60 minutes of daily ...
News / BY: Jennifer J. Telford, MD, MPH, FRCPC, CAGF, FACG September 2013
... diagnosed with invasive colorectal cancer found that only 7% of respondents had been identified through screening.[ 6 ] ... and there are no dietary or medication restrictions.[ 7 ] Colorectal cancer screening within a population-based ... screening in clinical trials does not manifest until 7 years later.[ 4 , 8 ]  Screening is not appropriate in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... ankle edema, cor pulmonale, or a hematocrit of 56%.[ 7 ] These guidelines also state that there is no evidence for ...