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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD September 2013
... how they would administer the incentives. In just under 4 months, 98 assigned In-patient Care networks comprising ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiao Yang, MD, FRCPC, May 2013
... from ventricular ar­rhythmia or complete heart block.[ 4 ] As well as being more common among Japanese people and ... can be seen in 14% to 56% of patients with CS.[ 4 ] These include regional wall motion abnormalities, ... to 100% in detecting CS and a specificity of 39% to 91%.[ 4 ] The use of cardiac biomarkers such as brain natriuretic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: E.M.M. Wong, MD December 2013
... found low levels of serum parathyroid hormone levels at 1.4 pmol/L (reference range 1.2 to 8.4 pmol/L), low serum total calcium (Ca) at 1.48 mmol/L (2.10 ... 1.7 mmol/L, and low 24-hour urinary calcium excretion at 0.4 mmol (reference range 1.0 to 7.0 mmol). The patient’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Natalie Drouillard, MD, March 2013
... benefit of an intervention carefully against the risk.[ 4 ] The VCH guideline was developed by geriatric ... exit-seeking behavior, and disruptive vocalizations.[ 4 ] BPSD can be distressing to the patient and can increase ... should be documented as described in the VCH guideline,[ 4 ] using an ABC approach that focuses on Antecedents, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Lorraine McIntyre, MSc July/August 2013
... commercially sold shellfish in Canada for over 30 years.[ 4 ] Canada has an extensive, well-managed shellfish control ... poisoning have only been found on the east coast.[ 4 , 6 ] Monitoring for amnesic shellfish poisoning has been ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... with chronic obstruc­tive pulmonary disease (COPD),[ 1-4 ] and more trials are currently underway.[ 5 ] There is ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) October 2013
... city. I had the pleasure of attending this year’s 4-day meeting held in Calgary, Alberta, as the BCMA ...
MDs To Be / BY: Laura Budd, BMSc, January/February 2013
... searches are being performed by 80% of Internet users.[ 4 ] These searches for medical information are the third most popular Internet activity.[ 4 ] Patients are engaging in social media using the tools of ... that 37% of respondents reported using Facebook and 6.4% of respondents reported contributing to an online blog.[ 6 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2013
... in BC, especially given the vast amount of waste fluid (4.2 billion litres in 2009)[ 4 ]  that is transported and dispos­ed of mainly in ...
News March 2013
... were the lowest paid in the country. Of the $20.4 billion paid to physicians in 2010–11 in Canada, about ...