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Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, December 2009
... odds of a woman participating in screening mammography.[ 2-9 ]  To learn more about why not all patients comply, the ... history of breast cancer is necessary to have a mammogram, 9% think one mammogram is enough and they do not need to have ... Unlike the Ontario study,[ 10 ] which found that only 38.9% of physicians were following breast screening guidelines ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, May 2009
... of children living in poverty in BC in 2006 was 21.9%, well above the national poverty rate of 15.8%. • BC’s ...
News / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD October 2009
... MD. Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ISBN 978-0-470-15972-9. Paperback, 218 pages. $21.95. Three physicians from ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD March 2009
... the new forms will be essential. •  Use appropriate ICD-9 diagnosis codes —medical and payment information in the new system is based on ICD-9 diagnoses, and, therefore, entering a correct code on the ... we will provide you with a table outlining the key ICD-9 codes for the injured-worker diagnoses you are most likely ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... 1 year later to Burns Lake, BC, where he remained for 9 years. He was involved in the Prince George negotiations of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Peter J. Nicholson, January/February 2009
... the promise of substantial earnings at the completion of 9 or more years of training, the possibility of illness ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC December 2009
... 1 ] The BC rate rose in 2008 to 31.3 per 100000 from 27.9 in 2007, reflecting an in­crease in case reports from 1220 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2009
... per day [confidence interval (CI) 1.1–2.1 for men and 0.9–2.5 for women]; RR 2.8 [CI 2.1–3.8] in men and 3.0 [CI ... as well as induction of a favorable lipid profile.9-12 Some of these effects are almost instant (such as the ... The Canadian Hypertension Society estimates that 4.0% to 9.2% of Canadian men and 0.6% to 2.6% of Canadian women have ...
Premise / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, October 2009
... one of the major obstetric facilities in Europe.[ 9 ] Soon after arriving he made some startling observations ... mortality at the First compared with the Second Clinic was 9.5% vs 2.6%, 7.8% vs 3.5%, 15.8% vs 7.5%, respectively. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP, April 2009
... of a pan-Canadian patient electronic health record.[ 9 ] Physician organizations, including the Canadian Medical ...