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WorkSafeBC / BY: Nirvana Kiarostami, AuD, RAUD, Aud(C) December 2017
... result in an 8% incidence of ONIHL after 40 years.[ 1,2 ] WorkSafeBC uses this conservative minimum noise exposure ... kHz), and is worse at those frequencies than at 250 Hz to 2 kHz.[ 3,4 ] Noise causes hearing loss most rapidly during ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Damon Ramsey, MD December 2017
... also created growing discontent among physician users[ 2 ] and, by extension, their patients, who have never been ... as the adoption of electronic health records over the past 2 decades has brought significant change management ... of records from paper to electronic formats over the past 2 decades, quantity rather than quality was emphasized and ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2017
... negotiations that eventually dragged on for almost 2 years. By 1981, Dr Alex Mandeville was president and the ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou May 2017
... 2014, leaving 23 344 patients without a family doctor.[ 2 ] Building on an existing team-based care model The ... to a GP, and decreased the cesarean rate from 31% to 21%.[ 2 ] As the division considered options for addressing the ... in patient wait times for access to primary care from 2 months to 3 weeks. One clinic, initially designated as an ...
Letters / BY: David D.W. Twa, BSc October 2017
... have hampered our understanding of such substances.[ 2 ] Extrapolating risks and benefits of marijuana ...
Premise / BY: Kevin Wade, CD, MD, CCFP March 2017
... and Dr Avery and colleagues.[ 1-3 ] Given that 2 years have passed since these articles were published, a ...
Obituaries / BY: Don Paterson, MD July/August 2017
... Dr Murdoch practised general medicine in Hagersville for 2 years, and then decided to specialize in physiatry. Studies ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP November 2017
... smoke, while urban dwellers may have COHb levels of 1% to 2%. People such as firefighters, construction and garage ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM December 2017
... account for 10% to 50% of transmission events.[ 1,2 ] In addition to the use of safe sexual practices, control ... a rapid immuno-blot that differentiates between HIV-1 and -2 antibodies. The BCCDC PHL has demonstrated that use of a ...
News January/February 2017
... the additional cost to BC’s health care system alone is $2 million per year. Study author Dr Chris Baliski, a clinical ...