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WorkSafeBC / BY: Charuka Maheswaran, MBBS, DTM&H, DRCOG, DFFP, PMETB, CELTA, LMCC, CCFP, MPH November 2024
... For a comprehensive review, please see the references.[ 2-4 ] In cases of frostbite, the skin and underlying tissues, ... affected area, but only if refreezing can be avoided.[ 2-4 ] Hypothermia is the most serious and life-threatening cold ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... = 14; Island Health: n = 7; Vancouver Coastal Health: n = 4; Fraser Health: n = 1). The Figure shows the availability ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Adrian Marcuzzi, BHSc May 2024
... 1 January 2022 and 21 March 2022 had a wait time of 51.4 weeks.[ 1 ] These reports may underrepresent the crisis ... during that period increased from 41.2% to 55.0%.[ 4 ] In Alberta between 2013 and 2015, an estimated 31% of ... with osteoarthritis found the number needed to harm was 4 for strong opioids and 9 for weak opioids.[ 14 ] Another ...
Letters / BY: Xi Yao Gui, MD September 2024
... assistance to health care providers in rural regions.[ 4 ] These programs facilitate direct videoconferencing, ... to specialists in pediatric, maternity, and newborn care.[ 4 ] Highlighting the program’s evolution, Rural Urgent ... answered an average of 34 calls over a 12-hour shift.[ 4 ] Due to high demand, the service sometimes encounters ...
BC Stories / BY: Allison Chung, MD March 2024
... so I could tell her of the world beyond Borneo. It was 4 years later when I returned. I was 12. I spoke fluent ...
Premise / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM June 2024
... with a story of progressive immobility over the last 4 years. Although she was very active during much of her ... to swimming instead of walking, and she continues to swim 4 days per week. X-ray showed she has significant arthritis ... symptoms and the need for joint replacement surgery.[ 4 , 5 ] In Canada, 73% of men with arthritis have increased ...
Letters / BY: Olivia L. Tseng, MD, PhD, CCFP, FCFP October 2024
... physicians’ time or force them into early retirement.[ 4 ] The quality of patient care is threatened when EHR data are missing or unmeaningfully merged[ 2 , 4 ] and physicians are exhausted with administrative tasks.[ ...
Letters / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD May 2024
... to the registrar of the College to express my concerns on 4 March. I propose that urgent consideration be given to ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2024
... conference discussions are also increasingly required.[ 4 ] The diagnostic pathway for breast cancer is complicated ... from 67 days in 2013 to 114 days in 2023 ( P < .01). Table 4 shows the benchmark wait times that were met and not met in ... in diagnostic wait times from 2013 to 2023 [ Table 4 ] . Many wait times that met benchmarks in 2013 no longer ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monica Durigon, RN(C), MSc December 2024
... In 2012, BC saw 369 cases (8.1 per 100 000).[ 1 ] In the 4-year period from 2018 to 2022, rates of infectious syphilis ... Officer declared an outbreak of syphilis in the province.[ 4 ] Subsequently, the syphilis team at BCCDC (composed of ...