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News January/February 2018
... Locum Portal (G14071) fees at the start of 2018. Effective 1 January 2018, GPs will need to bill G14070/71 in the ... :  Portal First Name :  GPSC Date of Birth : January 1, 2013 ICD9 Code : 780 Submitting G14070/71 enables GPs to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Constantin Shuster, MD June 2018
... a major focus of health care quality improvement efforts.[ 1 ] Subsequent recognition of wide regional variability in ... effort was made to improve hospital and community care.[ 1 , 2 ] A number of organizations in Canada, the United ... was significantly higher than the national average of 9.1% ( Figure 1 ).[ 5 ] The readmission rates in Saskatchewan ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
... to enable the car to continue its journey.[ 1 ] This proposal is especially applicable to the 1 in 5 Canadians who develops a mental illness in their ... was 43 days. Inspired by Gawande’s pit crew proposal,[ 1 ] the Psychiatric Interdisciplinary Team (PIT) Project (see ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Taylor, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2018
... hospital admissions and 3500 deaths per year in Canada.[ 1-3 ] Emergency department (ED) care for influenza consists ... benefits by reducing influenza symptoms by less than 1 day.[ 4 ] Vaccination is recommended for influenza ... emergency department at Vancouver General Hospital from 1 May to 31 August 2015 were approached to enroll in our ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP November 2018
... Studies have shown that diverse teams are more creative,[ 1-4 ] achieve better results,[ 5-7 ] act more ethically,[ 8 ] ...
News September 2018
... response times for life-threatening and time-critical 9-1-1 calls, and enhancing services for patients who don’t ... many of the changes that have already taken place in year 1 of the 3-year plan. Progress includes adding 127 paramedic ...
Letters / BY: Melissa Carr, DrTCM, BSc January/February 2018
... common cause of liver injury. Period. Full stop.”[ 1 ] Every year there are about 4500 hospitalizations in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matt Kurrek, MD, FRCPC December 2018
... published revised anesthesia practice guidelines in 2012,[ 1 ] we wrote an editorial for the Canadian Journal of ... the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society 2012 guidelines[ 1 ] described above, other leading medical societies and ... the adequacy of tissue perfusion and oxygenation.[ 1 ] Cost considerations Capnographic monitoring is now a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD June 2018
... patients, particularly those with chronic noncancer pain.[ 1 , 2 ] Opioid overprescription, improper risk assessment, ... Abbotsford/Chilliwack/Mission   19 October: Victoria  1 November: Courtenay/Comox/Campbell River 20 November: ... online at http://events.eply.com/chronicpain , or call 1 877 231-8765. Seating is limited. Sessions are tentatively ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS April 2018
... of the benefits and harms of alternative care options.”[ 1 ] Their utility and limitations have recently been well ...