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Editorials / BY: Donald B. Calne, OC, DM May 2001
In the April 2001 issue of the BC Medical Journal, five papers were published on ... B. Calne, OC, DM Director, Neurodegenerative Disorders Centre Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre Editorials Parkinson’s disease: Current medical, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn L. Malone, MD, FRCPC January/February 2001
... Educational handouts, posters, and a video from the BC Centre for Disease Control were used in an awareness ... Committee on Immunization, only 45% of nursing homes in BC experiencing an outbreak during the 1997–98 season used ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Teresa Marie Kope, MD, FRCPC June 2001
... [4]  This means that over 100 babies may be born in BC each year with autism spectrum disorders. Boys are ... Children and Families and has been widely circulated in BC. [14] The CHAT screening tool The CHAT (Checklist for ... Working Group within Children’s & Women’s Health Centre of BC. The C&W  Clinical Guideline for the Diagnosis ...
Editorials / BY: Dr Kimit Rai, MD, FRCSC July / August 2001
... ethics consultant in Vancouver Hospital & Health Sciences Centre, puts ethics resource committees in their proper ... industry is proposed. —Kimit Rai, MD, FRCSC  BC Representative, Ethics Committee of the Canadian Medical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Gregory Hislop, MDCM December 2000
... Columbia in recent years. As of 1996, 299 860 (8%) of the BC population identified themselves as Chinese.[ 1 ] A large ... rates than North American-born Chinese people. In BC, Chinese people have been found to have twice the cervical ... Canadian Medical Society), Dr M. Yu (Chinese Cultural Centre); other members of the research team: Dr C. Jackson, ...
Editorials / BY: Lorraine Gillespie, RN June 2000
... and rehabilitative services. Evaluations of several BC demonstration and pilot projects indicate that registered ... roles in primary health care. The Comox Valley Nursing Centre, developed to demonstrate registered nurses’ scope ... RN First Call, begun as a pilot project in 1996 in one BC hospital, has expanded to 10 hospitals. This program uses ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (RPEP) quickly. In BC, the exposure of greatest concern is that associated with ... reservoir throughout Canada and are the only reservoir in BC. Contact with any wild animal, and particularly any animal ... for evidence of rabies. In addition, since May 1997, the Centre for Disease Control has advised that RPEP should be ...
Editorials / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC March 2000
... awareness and encourage greater participation in the BC influenza immunization program overall. I would like to ... —Danuta Skowronski, MD, FRCPC, physician epidemiologist, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver Editorials Influenza: ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leila Srour, MD January/February 2000
... vaccine and only 1% with pneumococcal vaccine.[ 4 ] In BC, influenza vaccine is provided free of charge to people ... activity in health-care facilities and schools across BC.[ 5 ] All parties report to the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). In BC, health-care ...
Editorials / BY: G.I. McGregor, MD, FRCSC, FACS May 2000
... Systemic Therapy Subcommittee of the GI Tumor Group at the BC Cancer Agency, which meets to review policy on a regular ... care. This is an expensive, time-consuming process; the BC Cancer Agency has an obligation to assist physicians and ... FACS Chair, GI Tumor Group BC Cancer Agency Vancouver Centre Editorials Part 2—Colorectal cancer: Current ...