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Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD March 2025
... mortality compared with non-opioid analgesia.[ 3 ] Since 2016, there has been an almost threefold increase in fatal ... the context of opioid-naive individuals. Some individuals may be only short-term users, while others become long-term ... mental health issues, suicide, and overdose compounds this issue.[ 38 ] Hence, evidence-informed measures that focus on ...
Premise / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC May 2025
... others only partially or not at all, and still others may experience undesirable, even fatal, side effects. The ... Opioid use disorder is a long-standing social and medical issue that has reached epidemic proportions in recent years, ... ] despite the declaration of a public health emergency in 2016. Efforts to understand and manage the problem of opioid ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2025
... be upon us (something else you’ve read about in a prior issue of the BCMJ ). You pause at a letter responding to last ... response rate but comparable to prior surveys in 2022 and 2016. Of those respondents, 39% were family physicians, 40% ... the importance of discovery. A digital algorithm may not serve up the article you didn’t know you needed, ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Peter K.Y. Chan, MD, FRCPC, ISAM April 2024
... an enhanced section 9 representation agreement, an adult may authorize a representative to decide on a wider scope of ... information and set out what type of capacity is at issue and what the legal test is for that type of capacity.[ ... an adult’s ability to manage their financial affairs. 2016. ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2023
... a public health emergency in relation to drug poisoning in 2016, making it the only issue other than the COVID-19 pandemic that has prompted the ... fit the needs of all who are at risk, such as those who may encounter barriers to prescribed models. Nonmedical ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Ka Wai Cheung, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2023
... Western Canada and is the second largest in Canada. In 2016, the Vancouver Physician Staff Association was formed to ... in the Vancouver Physician Staff Association raised the issue of burnout. The Vancouver Coastal Health senior ... unprecedented challenges to the health care profession and may affect different specialties in different ways and to ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Robin Friedlander, MD, FRCPC October 2023
... as informed by recent developments in the field. While we may touch on areas of evolving knowledge, it is beyond the ... In a multisite study conducted in the US between 2000 and 2016, 27% of 8-year-old children with autism were assessed to ... necessary in some cases. A companion article in this issue reviews the psychopharmacological treatment of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: barbara findlay, MA, LLB, QC March 2022
... Note that there is no specific age cutoff in BC: a minor may be competent to decide about a particular medical ... health care provider.[ 20 ] Though no case has decided the issue directly, it is likely that a minor would have to ... treatments (for example, a much more complex physical issue or treatment plan); that assessment is up to the care ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD April 2021
... to women who enter medicine in the future that they may be paid less despite doing the same work as men, solely because of their gender? The complexity of this issue and the solutions to it cannot be thoroughly discussed ... than ever before. The entering class of UBC Medicine in 2016 was 53.8% women.[ 2 ] Despite this, implicit ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2021
... and successful management of chronic pain is essential and may prevent loss of independence. Opioids are also indicated ... opioid can resolve this. Opioids are not all the same In a 2016 study,[ 17 ] 520 people with cancer pain that was being ... ] but nonpharmacological therapies are also helpful. One issue to be mindful of is obstructive sleep apnea because ...