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Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD April 2016
... Chronic kidney disease.  3.    Heart failure.  4.    Chronic respiratory condition (asthma, emphysema, ...
Editorials / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... with CHD died in infancy or childhood. In the past 4 decades, however, advances in medical care, surgery, and ... that in the year 2000 there was a prevalence rate of 4.09 cases per 1000 adults for all CHD and 0.38 cases per ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2016
... impact on surgeons and are strongly related to burnout.[ 4,5 ] Burnout occurs in 24% to 40% of American surgeons and ... 65 events: OR time scheduled when a surgeon was on call (4 events), OR time scheduled post-call (39 events), and full ... change in the number of events for each surgeon. Figure 4  shows simplified preimplementation and postimplementation ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Katherine Shoults, MD, May 2016
... distribution width (RDW) in the upper range of normal (14.4%). Test results for infectious diseases considered in the ... associated with nitrous oxide use in labor and delivery.[ 4 ] Maternal adverse effects to the drug included nausea, ... rare and serious effects such as neurological compromise.4 However, it may be that pregnant women experience fewer ...
News / BY: Dirk van Niekerk, MD, FRCPC October 2016
... latter having its highest overall rates in this group.[ 4 , 5 ] It is critical that health care providers find ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP March 2016
... to Health Canada, in 2012 the national incidence was 4.8 per 100 000, and in British Columbia 6.1 per 100 000. In ... related to the recent exposure need to be done at least 4 to 8 weeks after the incident. However, doing both tests ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jonathan Pearce, MD, CCFP(PC) June 2016
... scores of relatives who did not have such discussions.[ 4 ] Furthermore, lack of discussion related to end-of-life ...
Letters / BY: Joel Fox, MD (PGY-1 Psychiatry) September 2016
... striking. The study on all forms of exercise in Taiwan,[ 4 ] however, showed a continued benefit with longer and more ...
Articles / BY: Kelly L. Apostle, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... in the hip or knee and has a higher compressive modulus.[ 4,5 ] The ankle also has a smaller area of contact causing ... Database who had been followed for a minimum of 4 years after ankle replacement or fusion.[ 25 ] Although the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Derek Smith, MD, FRCSC November 2016
... Achilles tendon ruptures are misdiagnosed initially.[ 1 , 4 ] Diagnosis is based on history and physical examination. ...