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News December 2010
... amount of $2541. Using the highest tax bracket in BC of 43.7%, this GP would have paid $1110 in tax for a monthly ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margot Davis, MD, September 2010
... 6 ] the significance of solitary thyroid nodules,[ 7 ] and the epidemiology of gall bladder disease[ 8 ] and ... the same factors used in the women’s model, and found 16.7% of the study population were reclassified into higher or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: S.E. Lord, MD, April 2010
... Vancouver Area Neighborhood Deprivation In­dex (VANDIX),[ 7 ] developed by the authors to integrate census-derived ... average ISS in this group was 28 (range 13 to 75; SD 12.7).  Temporal factors The time of day during which the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel H. Williams, MSc, FRCS (Tr & Orth), November 2010
... requiring the use of a posterior stabilized component. 7. Lateral collateral ligament release from its femoral ... jig is used to cut the distal femur in between 5 and 7 degrees of valgus relative to the anatomical axis. This ... current use in Norway is between 89% and 95%[ 1 ] and the 7-year rate in Australia is 95.7%.[ 2 ] Of note, purely in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Douglas Cochrane MD, FRCSC, June 2010
... “huddle” with the patient in the room have taken only 7 minutes of the team’s time. The operation proceeds ... findings[ 3 ] to surgical care in BC, and assuming a 7.5% adverse event rate, 8995 surgical inpatient cases with ... reduces the occurrence of mistakes, slips, and lapses.[ 7 ] A checklist is typically a list of action items or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: S. Green, MD, FCFP March 2010
... hospital) while requiring that residents have 1 day off in 7 and that no single shift continue for longer than 24 ... is one between surgical and nonsurgical disciplines,[ 7 ] where it is often noted that surgical residents will ... of program (2.66 vs 1.76, P<.01), hours worked in the last 7 days (77.89 vs 67.16, P<.05), and recommended work-hour ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Hawkeswood, MD, October 2010
... functional status after 8 weeks of intervention.[ 2 , 6 , 7 ]  For each kilogram of body weight lost, the knee ... reduction in compressive load for each kilometre walked.[ 7 ] Patients with symptomatic hip and knee OA may benefit ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David N. Landsberg, MD, May 2010
... with 1- and 10-year graft survival at 96.4% and 77.7%. Results in high-risk patients have also improved. This is ... kidney failure. This approach allows for better outcomes.[ 7 ] Living donation has grown because of a number of factors. ... Patient survival for this same time span is 94.5% ( Figure 7 ), comparable to US registry data with 5-year patient ...
News&Notes / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, December 2010
... of a northwest passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic.[ 7 ] After traveling to South Africa (Cape Town), Australia, ... British claims of sovereignty against Spain.”[ 7 ]  Despite this Vancouver did not receive much welcome ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erica Frank, MD, September 2010
... exhilarated by their work than BC physicians do ( Table 7 ). Conclusions Most personal and professional ... Columbians over age 20 are moderately physically active.[ 7 ] This finding suggests that a number of factors may ... the general population: 3.4% of BC female physicians (vs 3.7% of Canadian female physicians and 9.6% of Canadian women) ...