In the September issue of the BCMJ we neglected to include the following two additional BC physician appointees to the Order of Canada.

This past August you may have received an e-mail request to complete a short survey and to tell us what you would like to see in the BCMJ. We sent the survey to a random sample set of Doctors of BC members and asked them to provide feedback and be heard, and gave them the option to enter to win a prize. Thank you to everyone who completed the survey—we had an excellent response rate of 24%, spanning family physicians, specialists, and trainees (students and residents) of all ages, both community based and hospital based.

The ClinicalKey mobile app for iOS and Android and the web-based version are available to all College registrants with Library access. ClinicalKey provides access to Elsevier’s extensive collection of medical journals, books, videos, patient education materials, and drug monographs. It is coupled with a Medline search engine and guideline database, making it a powerful research tool. The College Library’s ClinicalKey subscription focuses on full-text content in family medicine, psychiatry, internal medicine, orthopedics, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and emergency medicine.

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Despite existing clinical practice guidelines for optimal management of axial spine pain,[1,2,3,4] the degree of adherence across different health care disciplines varies widely.[2,5,6,7] Known gaps between guidelines and routine health care practice reflect a universal need for more effective knowledge translation.[8,9] Particularly in primary care, effective knowledge translation strategies must consider the con

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