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Letters / BY: James M. Wright, MD, PhD, FRCPC March 2018
... summarized  Prescrire ’s 2017 list of Drugs to Avoid.[ 1 ] In letter #108 we explain why we have confidence in the ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2018
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB January/February 2018
... and I support their application where applicable.[ 1-2 ] I favor properly designed trials and objective studies ... made to determine significance. A  P  value below 0.05 (1 in 20), implies statistical significance. This is a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Erin Fraser, DVM, MSc November 2018
... (60% to 80%) of BC raccoons harbor this parasite.[ 1 ] Although human Baylisascaris infections are extremely ... clinical signs and symptoms, which often appear 1 to 4 weeks after infection, can include fatigue, nausea, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Ben Jong, MD April 2018
... service trades, or transit operator sectors. Only 1% required surgical correction, while others received ... regarding surgical and nonsurgical treatment persists.[ 1 ] Mechanism of injury The most common mechanism of AC joint ... of the acromioclavicular and coracoclivicular ligaments.[ 1 , 2 , 3 ] Indirect mechanisms of injury resulting from a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2018
... 69, and 14% to 29% of cases in people 70 years and older.[ 1 ] Zoster and its attendant complications are preventable by ... in those aged 70 and older (median follow-up time: 3.1 years), and 66.5% against post-herpetic neuralgia ... lipid A from Salmonella minnesota combined with 1 mg of dioleoyl phosphatidylcholine (DOPC) and 0.25 mg ...
News / BY: Stephen Routledge, MPH January/February 2018
... by the Joint Commission ( www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/18/Hot_Topics_Transitions_of_Care.pdf ), in order to keep ... the following five questions about their medications:  1.    Have any medications been added, stopped, or ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sergei Likhodii, PhD, DCC, FCACB June 2018
... respiratory depression at very small doses.[ 1 ] Fentanyl and derivatives are now found in mixtures sold ... by as low as 0.001 atomic mass units (amu), compared to 1 amu for conventional instruments, and allows for detection ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jenny M. Young, MSW, MA July/August 2018
... use of negotiated risk agreements in assisted living),[ 1 ] specific circumstances (e.g., choices of competent ... be construed as intended primarily to protect facilities.[ 1 ] So how can complex cases involving risks be evaluated ...
Clinical Articles / BY: F. Michelle Sutter, MD, FRCSC March 2018
... of recurrence by two-thirds and can improve survival.[ 1 ] The decision to recommend adjuvant radiation is ... one breast cancer death for every four local recurrences.[ 1 ] There is now evidence that older patients with small ... the radiation therapy recommended following BCS.[ 13 ] On 1 November 2012 the BC Cancer Centre for the North opened in ...