News /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
November 2006
... following community-based patients: the frail elderly (ICD-9 code V15), palliative care (ICD-9 code V58), end-of-life (ICD-9 code V58), or mental illness. The fee depends not on the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Richard Beever, MD
June 2006
... percent DEET is effective for 10 hours, [1,5,8,9] so if any repellent remained on the test area despite ... its effectiveness is proportional to its concentration. [9,14,15] Overall, the results indicate that both DEET and ... of effectiveness (ranging from 2 hours for 5% DEET to 9.5 hours for 100% DEET), there is no clear relationship ...
News /
BY: Fiona Youatt,
October 2006
... committee will: • Apply new annual funding of $9 million to determine new emergency medicine service ...
News /
BY: Sarah Gilgoff, BSc,
April 2006
... Chilliwack—Chilliwack General Wed., 3 May Tues., 9 May Tues., 2 May Thurs., 4 May Wed., 10 May Thurs., 11 ...
Clinical Articles
December 2006
... to developing PTSD or other anxiety disorders. Grados [9] has recently reviewed the diagnosis and treatment of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP
July/August 2006
... symptomatic hyperglycemia, and hypoglycemia. [1-4,6,9-23] All these things have been associated with lower ... (51% vs 46%: P = .44), and average age (60.2 vs 59.9 years: P = .87). The rates for diabetes complications ... 19%), retinopathy (15% vs 14%), cerebrovascular accidents (9% vs 8%), neuropathy (9% vs 10%), peripheral vascular ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Areta B. Wong, BSc,
March 2006
... Statistical Classification of Diseases ( ICD-9, ICD-10 ). [5,6] A maternal death is the death of a woman ... can obviously help reduce maternal deaths. [8,9] In developed countries, technological advancements in ... reports and maternal mortality review committee reports, [9] could also improve the quality of maternal death data. ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Brenda Kosaka, MD
November 2006
... outcome, but this intriguing work needs to be replicated. [9] Depression has been found as the most frequent ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Hin Hin Ko, MD
June 2006
... in 2003, compared with 8.5% of cases reported previously. [9] According to the NHANES III survey, the age-adjusted ... seroprevalence of HBV infection in the US was 4.9% (95% CI, 4.3%–5.6%), which is low compared with other ... 100 000 to 200 000 persons [20] and accounts for 5.9% of transplants. [21,22] There is very limited ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Fawziah Marra, PharmD
October 2006
... increase for 0- to 4-year-olds; 19% increase in the 5- to 9-year-olds; and 12% increase in the 10- to 14-year-olds). ... for quinolones was only significant for age groups 5 to 9 (15%) and 10 to 14 (36%). In BC, extended spectrum ... increased from 0.4 prescriptions per 1000 children to 34.9 prescriptions per 1000 children (an increase of 8056%). ...