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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM March 2015
... disease episodes were due to PPV23 serotypes.[ 4 ] While the polysaccharide 23-valent vaccines provide a ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD October 2015
... On average, an on-site audit will take place over 3 or 4 days. The audit team will be composed of two or three ... rendered were benefits under the Medicare Protection Act. 4.    Fee items claimed were consistent with the services ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christine Halpert, RN, BSN, MA, June 2015
... to manage pain related to their child’s immunizations.[ 4-7 ] There is increasing evidence that experiencing pain in ... be administered prior to injected vaccines at the 2- and 4-month visits.[ 10 ] •    Immunization procedures: ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP December 2015
... in the population catchment area from 2006 to 2011.[ 4 ] The move by full-service family physicians to limited, ... show a similarly consistent range from 20.0% to 26.4% through 2007. Services received by patients from a ... 22.9% in 2011, and increased to 25.5% in 2012. A low of 17.4% was seen for the first quarter of 2013.  Data for ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lauri McCoy MD, CFPC January/February 2015
... to “crazy, madness, crackers, or hysterics.”[ 4 ]  In general in Spanish, the term dementia translates ... translations include “insanity” and “madness.”[ 4 ] The acceptance of dementia is quite high for many ... “insaneness,” and “neurosis” in Hindi.[ 4 ] An interpreter can play an important role both in the ...
News September 2015
... January 2015. Please hold submission of claims until after 4 August 2015. For claims that are over 90 days from initial ...
MDs To Be / BY: Csilla Egri, MSc, April 2015
... that are more the same than different.” This yielded 4.17 × 10 9  search results, of which none were carefully ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rakel Kling, MD, MSc, November 2015
... by the characteristic erythema migrans rash within 4 weeks of exposure. Later in the course of infection ... recommend a two-step process for serologic testing:[ 3,4 ] when a positive or equivocal positive using a highly ...
News July/August 2015
... the costs of each patient entered into the study over 4 years (each patient will be followed for up to 10 years) ...
News March 2015
... impact of BC Pharmacare’s changes to the coverage of DPP-4 inhibitors on physicians’ practice and patient care. The ... it would no longer cover sitagliptin (Januvia) a DPP-4 inhibitor and the fixed-dose combination of sitagliptin and ... required to have transitioned to one of the other two DPP-4 inhibitors that are covered by BC Pharmacare by 5 February ...