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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM May 2016
... following vaccination: How is it defined? Hum Vaccin 2008;4:316-319. BC Centre for Disease Control. Communicable ... on Immunization. Canadian immunization guide. Part 4. Active vaccines. Accessed 3 March 2016.  ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bakul Dalal, MD, July/August 2016
... The clinical features of PNH are shown in Table 1 .[ 3 , 4 ] The most common are fatigue (typically out of proportion ... lowest in cases of bicytopenia (1.8%) and unicytopenia (0.4%). We also subdivided the unicytopenia cases ( Table 4 ) and found these were notable for the rarity of positive ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel J. Lithwick, MHA, April 2016
... athletes before athletic participation and at 2-year to 4-year intervals thereafter.[ 2 ] This initial screening ... health care resources for large-scale ECG screening.[ 4 ] Currently, Canada has no official mandate or ... Following 26 years of screening, the rate decreased to 0.4 per 100 000 person-years, an 89% relative risk reduction.  ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Linda M.N. Hoang, MSc, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC June 2016
... 50%, from 8.6 per 10 000 inpatient days in 2009–10 to 4.2 per 10 000 inpatient days in 2014–15. Among the ... Colonization by household pets has also been reported.[ 4 ] Although little is known of where and how C. difficile is ...
Obituaries / BY: Kim Martin, MD, April 2016
... and moved to Halifax to join a physician there. After 4 years in practice he realized obstetrics was his real ... community in his later years. When he passed away on 4 February 2016, Dr Martin left behind many patients and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Gabriel, MD, MSc, CCFP October 2016
... and timeliness of care are all affected. [ 1 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] Ideally, every Canadian would receive ... speak a language other than English at home and 3.4% of the population (5.7% in Metro Vancouver) have no ... in 145 calls. The average length of a call was 12.4 minutes and the average cost per call was approximately $22 ...
News September 2016
... that the BC data are comparable. In the national survey, 4 out of 10 Canadians who struggle with depression indicate ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD March 2016
... patterns are significantly outside the mean (i.e., 3 to 4 standard deviations or higher). The letters will outline ...
Letters / BY: Vandad Yousefi, MD, CCFP, FHM, May 2016
... of family medicine has been in the making for decades.[ 4 ] For example, in our previous research on drivers of the ...
News July/August 2016