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Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... As of 2004, approximately 1.3 million Canadians, or 4.9% of the population age 12 or older, had been diagnosed with ... and a further 3.5% has undiagnosed glucose intolerance.[ 9 ]  The presence of diabetes is a strong predictor of CAD, ...
ICBC / BY: Glenyth Nasvadi, MA, March 2008
... more likely to give their driving skills a high rating.[ 9 ] Most physicians rely on the Mini Mental State Exam ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, October 2008
... than the bacteremia caused by a single dental extraction.[ 9 ]  It is now felt that IE is much more likely to result ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
... 17%. A further survey in 2004 revealed just 12.9% of Canadian FPs were delivering babies.[ 1 ]  There are a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Neal Shahidi, January/February 2008
... group (x2 = 0.3; P = .57), and a decrease in the 5 to 9 years group (x2 = 3.6;  P  = .06).  Between 2002 and ... while the rate for 1-year-olds fell from 134.7 to 14.9 cases (x2 = 68.5  P  < .0001), and the rate for ... were also nonsignificant decreases among 3-year-olds (27.9 to 14.3 cases), 4-year-olds (22.7 to 16.9 cases), and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Farsheed Hedayati-Vala, MD, July/August 2008
... findings).  Many studies rely on the modified GHAA-9 patient satisfaction survey, a useful tool that has been ... studied was 94.8%. The reach-the-duodenum rate was 95.9%. The overall incompletion rate was 4%. The complications ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Frank Ervin, MD, FRCPC, April 2008
... by Warren and colleagues is also worth considering.[ 9 ] Caregivers are urged to listen to the patient’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD, November 2008
... as treatment failure in the last 100 similar patients).[ 9 ] However, the degree of medical uncertainty when dealing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Navid Dehghani, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... to foreign body aspiration.[ 1 ]  In the first 9 months of 2007, the divisions of emergency medicine and ... objects create more morbidity than the low-risk objects.[ 9 ]  High-risk objects in­clude any small hard pieces of ...
Letters / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2008
... pedometer users increased their physical activity by 26.9% over baseline. An important predictor of this was having a ...