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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tania Morrison, MHSc, RD June 2017
... a lack of budgeting, food skills, or cooking knowledge.[ 2 ] Simply put, food insecurity is “the inadequate or ...
Premise / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... that the current guideline (2017) has lowered to 90 mg.[ 1,2 ] Yet this young man no longer had any pain! He could jog, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joshua Budlovsky, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... active smoker. While her first BMD measurement (T score 22.2 at the hip) and most recent measurement (T score 22.4) were ... and an increased mortality rate persists for 5 years.[ 2,3 ] For a woman over 50 the lifetime risk of a hip fracture ... of bisphosphonate-associated atypical fracture is between 2 and 78 cases per 100 000 person-years. Thus, for every 100 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Reid, BSc, BN June 2017
... acceptable wait times for a consultation and procedure.[ 2 ] According to these statements, patients with acute ... or odynophagia, should be assessed endoscopically within 2 weeks. Indications for an assessment target of 2 months include bright red rectal bleeding, iron deficiency ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2017
... with this during my next set of weekly rounds. However, 2 weeks later I received another e-mail missive from HAMAC, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2017
... proactive care planning. Staff would check care plans 1 to 2 weeks before a patient visit, note what tests were due, and ... and a dashboard to show progress over time. In 2 years, 86% of my patients had current tetanus vaccinations. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Angela Eykelbosh, PhD January/February 2017
... contact may cause allergic reactions, redness, or rash.[ 1,2 ] Inhalation or dermal exposure to dispersants used in ... effects, respiratory and eye irritation, and dermatitis.[ 2,3 ] A review[ 2 ] of the health impacts of oil spills found that short-term ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Lai, MD, FRCPC April 2017
... requires several medications for each clinical condition,[ 2 ] and the polypharmacy that can result (defined in some ... for prescribing or deprescribing medications. Step 2: Identify potentially inappropriate medications Once a best ... horizon to benefit for statin therapy is approximately 2 years.[ 16 ] Thus, in a patient with limited life ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2017
... most often associated with skin and wound infections.[ 2,3 ] Over 1 in 4 cases in 2016 reported being ... 9 years prior to 2016, but was overtaken by  emm  82 (20.2%) and 101 (16.8%) in 2016. While  emm  1 was identified ...
Obituaries / BY: Guy Winch, MBChB December 2017
... for the county of Lancashire. On leaving school he did his 2 years of national service in the Royal Electrical and ... the C.S. Williams Clinic as a consultant in OB/GYN. After 2 years in Trail, Derek and Judy’s marriage fell apart, and ...