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President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD January/February 2009
... to foreign-trained physicians, and expanding scope of practice to other health care workers such as nurse ... and midwives. In January, the mandated scope of practice of pharmacists has increased, and currently regulation has been proposed to expand scope of practice to naturopaths and optometrists. In the throne ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Dance, BSc, LLB, January/February 2009
... conclusion is not compatible with the current standard of practice in BC, where many ER physicians have become skilled ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Albert W. Chan, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... and coronary atherosclerotic disease common in cardiology practice.[ 1,2 ] For the past 3 decades, carotid ... were typical for patients in a cardiovascular practice. Of note, 24 of the 100 patients were symptomatic ... admission. Although clopidogrel use is part of routine CAS practice at Royal Columbian based on our experience in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... grown from an obscure theory to a central concept in the practice of cardiovascular medicine and the prevention of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Carl Whiteside, MD, March 2009
... to undergraduate and postgraduate training and on into practice affects on recruitment for rural communities.[ 1-4 ] ... REAP strategies at undergraduate, postgraduate, and practice level. Rural Subsidiary Agreement communities More ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2009
... us along, encourage us to work together, and improve the practice situation for each of our member sections. As on any ... who are familiar with the government’s proposed scope of practice legislation. But we are moving forward in a positive ... who has spent countless hours ensuring that scope of practice expansion for other health providers is done in a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP, April 2009
... and audit to inform decision making both at the individual practice level and across the health system.[ 8 ] With ... Survey contained several questions on technology use in practice.[ 13,14 ] The 2003 BCMA IT survey and 2005 ... How are EMRs in current outpatient offices being used in practice? • What was the implementation experience for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2009
... was assessed extensively in the mid-1980s by the family practice research group at the University of Calgary,[ 16 ] ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD April 2009
... enhanced in a number of ways and allows some medical practice income to coincide with partial disability payments. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aneez Mohamed, MD, FRCPC, May 2009
... from clinical trials into his or her busy clinical practice. This process is made easier when the information is ... from the ENHANCE trial might be applied to clinical practice. Surrogate endpoints A surrogate endpoint is an ... and integrate the findings of ENHANCE into his or her practice? To interpret the IMT trials, we first have to ...