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Premise / BY: Martin C. Wale, BM BS, FRCPath, MBA March 2017
Letters / BY: Brandon M. Theriault July/August 2017
... Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) for the ICU (CAM-ICU).[ 1 ] The CAM-ICU has been further validated for use in ... of the 3D-CAM with the analysis would have been helpful.[ 1,2 ] Regarding the prevention of delirium during ...
News October 2017
Effective 1 October 2017 some of the GPSC’s incentives have changed ... this fall. News Reminder: GPSC incentive changes in effect 1 October 2017 ...
News January/February 2017
... please e-mail insurance@doctorsofbc.ca or call 1 800 665-2262. To contact the carrier, please call 1 877 333-4088. News Legal expense insurance program ...
News April 2017
... of 35 million people, shows vitamin D could spare 1.75 million people having one RTI per year. Vitamin D ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2017
... per 100 000 population); 209 cases have been reported from 1 January to 10 July 2017.[ 1 ] The recent increase has been observed in all regions of ... alcoholism, and recent childbirth. Among 2016 cases, about 1 in 3 reported injection drug use. This risk group is ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Vanessa Perrodou, RD December 2017
... (Six Months to Six Years): For Health Professionals[ 1 ] provide a framework for physicians to use to reverse the ... child-feeding expert Ellyn Satter. Before a child is 1 year old, where and when feedings take place should be led by infants and their hunger cues; after age 1, parents/caregivers take over the responsibility for where ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS March 2017
... value has been well documented in the medical literature.[ 1,2 ] Proven benefits for patients include the preservation ... Editorials Guest editorial: Caring for older adults, Part 1: The value of geriatric assessment ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elena Terekhova, MD, PhD June 2017
... the patient and provider are separated by distance.”[ 1 ] Although telemedicine has existed for decades, it has ... for telemedicine users in 29 BC regional districts ( Table 1 ). The number of users increased from 8282 in the first ... for a total of 25 431 users in a 2-year period ( Figure 1 ). The total number of consultations was 79 576, and the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alexa R.Y. Dang, BSc July/August 2017
... attention on patients who need the care of a specialist.[ 1 ]  When a patient finishes undergoing RT, a treatment ... in BC but has the smallest treatment population ( Table 1 ). The primary goal of this study was to determine the ... treated with RT at the BCCA Centre for the North between 1 November 2012 (when the centre opened in Prince George) and ...