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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD November 2014
... of family physician obstetrical billers decreased by about 4%.[ 1 ] As prenatal and obstetrical care provided by family ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2014
... with dementia. This number is expected to quadruple to 1.4 million by 2031, according to the Alzheimer Society of ... stress can lead to physical and emotional illness[ 4 ] and burnout, as well as hospitalization and ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sean McGee, BSc (Hons), July/August 2014
... care system and public access to medical services.”[ 4 ] Further, although  NEJM  is an American publication, it ...
Obituaries / BY: Bill Johnston, MD, March 2014
... Peggy moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1954 where he spent 4 years attending Wayne State University and Henry Ford ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, October 2014
... (apixaban),[ 3 ] and ENGAGE (edoxaban 30 mg and 60 mg).[ 4 ] All four studies used stroke or systemic embolism as the ... arm. ENGAGE, a trial comparing edoxaban to warfarin,4 with a median TTR of 68% had a hemorrhagic stroke rate 9 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... In British Columbia, 1% of the population has HF.[ 4-6 ] The mortality rate in patients with HF is high and the ... the opioid can be administered regularly (usually every 4 hours). The oral route is preferred to the subcutaneous ... the patient to 0.5 mg of oral hydromorphone every 4 hours regularly. The hourly PRN dose must remain for ...
Letters December 2014
... risk of embolism increases nearly fourfold at an INR of 1.4-1.7; risk of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) increases similarly at 3.6-4.5.[ 2 ] Even in the controlled environment of clinical ... and mortality than patients with spontaneous ICH.[ 4 ] The “prolonged and expensive resuscitations for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kostas Ioannou, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... head to the chest, and cardiac telemetry was born.[ 1,3,4 ] Holter’s first radio-electrocardiograph recording was ... the device, reducing it to a size of 19.5 × 9.8 × 4.6 cm and a weight of 1 kg. Realizing the potential benefit ... atrial fibrillation in patients with stroke in 1.0% to 5.4% of cases.[ 7 ] The role of treatment of ventricular ectopy ...
Letters / BY: Ted Patterson, September 2014
... it is likely dictionaries will be reviewed every 3 to 4 years to keep up with emerging changes in technologies and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ramesh Saeedi, MD, PhD, May 2014
... by interfering with the fibrinolytic pathway.[ 3,4 ] There is considerable heterogeneity in the size and ... both of which are determined by the  LPA  gene.[ 1-4 ] Several studies have found an independent and continuous ... isoforms associated more strongly with risk of CAD.[ 1-4 ] Polymorphism in the LPA gene also influences Lp(a) levels ...