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Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC January/February 2018
... treatment. •    There should be an acceptable test.[ 1 ] These principles have undergone multiple revisions over ... In 2010 the lifetime risk for developing breast cancer was 1 in 9 and the lifetime mortality risk was 1 in 30. Since 1986 there has been a steady decline in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC May 2018
... LGV has become increasingly common in North America[ 1-3 ] and Europe[ 4-7 ] among gay, bisexual, and other men ... and probable cases of LGV recorded in the STI-IS from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2015 were included in the ... proportion z test. Data were analyzed using R-Studio 3.2.1 (RStudio Inc, Boston MA). A P value of < .05 was considered ...
Letters / BY: David Kendler, MD March 2018
... infections were reported in 3.4% of placebo subjects and 4.1% of denosumab subjects ( P  = 0.14). The references quoted ...
Editorials / BY: Rona E. Cheifetz, MD, MEd, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2018
... in 2016, and 3500 of these were in British Columbia.[ 1 ] Breast cancer remains big news. Articles on breast cancer ... UBC Editorials Guest editorial: Breast cancer, Part 1: Issues in diagnosis ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C. Bruce Verchere, PhD November 2018
Worldwide prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes is on the rise, yet we remain without a ... disease and have limited therapeutic options. With 1.4 million people impacted by prediabetes or diabetes in British Columbia alone,[ 1 ] the need has never been greater for research into the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kevin Wing, MD, FRCSC April 2018
... of rationing in the publicly funded health care system.[ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ] Moreover, it is difficult to obtain ... (BCOA) has long known that patients can wait up to 1 year for nonemergency access to orthopaedic consultation ... either seen in consultation or received surgery between 1 May and 31 July 2017. Patients who waited less than 42 days ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Nancy Falconer, September 2018
... and enhances care provider satisfaction and retention.[ 1-3 ] But how can providers realistically create a more ...
News January/February 2018
... Locum Portal (G14071) fees at the start of 2018. Effective 1 January 2018, GPs will need to bill G14070/71 in the ... :  Portal First Name :  GPSC Date of Birth : January 1, 2013 ICD9 Code : 780 Submitting G14070/71 enables GPs to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Constantin Shuster, MD June 2018
... a major focus of health care quality improvement efforts.[ 1 ] Subsequent recognition of wide regional variability in ... effort was made to improve hospital and community care.[ 1 , 2 ] A number of organizations in Canada, the United ... was significantly higher than the national average of 9.1% ( Figure 1 ).[ 5 ] The readmission rates in Saskatchewan ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
... to enable the car to continue its journey.[ 1 ] This proposal is especially applicable to the 1 in 5 Canadians who develops a mental illness in their ... was 43 days. Inspired by Gawande’s pit crew proposal,[ 1 ] the Psychiatric Interdisciplinary Team (PIT) Project (see ...