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Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP December 2022
... article on this topic originally appeared in the November 2014 issue of the BCMJ . As this subject continues to pose a ... Committee decided to revisit the topic. While physicians may view documentation of services as time-consuming, it is ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Drona Rasali, PhD, FACE May 2020
... and the health care resources required to manage it may be much greater than the sum of single diseases.[ 2 , 3 ] ... increasingly becoming a key public health and primary care issue in the prevention and management of chronic diseases.[ ... BC residents 20 years or older had multimorbidity (2+) in 2014/15.[ 2 ] Another Canadian study using data for five ...
Premise / BY: Martin C. Wale, BM BS, FRCPath, MBA March 2017
... by the Physician Specialist Services Advisory Committee in 2014. Following this, further work on the Cochrane ... supports (training, simulation experience, etc.) may be required to maintain currency in the context of service requirements. Where collection of data is an issue, this should be raised in that conversation.  ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2016
... to those they care for, and they do work while sick and may transmit influenza while asymptomatically shedding ... the arbitrator in Ontario that Mr Offley quotes) is on the issue of whether there is any additional benefit to an ... of protection from year to year (from the low of 13% in 2014–15 to over 80% in 2010–11 in Canada with an accepted ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Will Offley, RN December 2016
... are not the same thing. There are many ways an individual may be infected with influenza despite having had the annual ... As an example, many infections occurred in the 2014–15 flu season when there was a mismatch between the ... and in the absence of an outbreak.”[ 12 ] Also at issue is the practical matter of wearing masks. It appears ...
Editorials / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC September 2015
Dr Margaret Colbourne Following the 2014 release of “Lost in the Shadows” from the ... physicians of their legal obligation to report a child who may be in need of protection, as well as guiding them through ... of these children. This is the first of a two-part theme issue on child maltreatment. The first article is a brief ...
Letters June 2014
... happy to read [Dr Richardson’s] March editorial ( BCMJ  2014;56:73 ) last week—I am seriously behind on my reading. ... Of interest to you might be an article published in the May 2009 issue of the  Journal of the American College of Surgeons .[ ...
Letters / BY: C. Eve Rotem, MD, July/August 2014
... all too often. I am glad to see discussions on this thorny issue are finally beginning. Without an accepted policy being ... this difficult problem (to the best of our abilities in 2014). And I believe the problem should be discussed with a ... years. This discussion has been started in the April and May issues of the  BC Medical Journal  and that is an ...
Letters / BY: Kobus de Jager, MBBS September 2014
... average citizen, and perhaps even the average physician, may view death with dignity, a good death, aid in dying, ... physician-assisted suicide as of the same species ( BCMJ  2014;56:6 ). But criminal law draws sharp distinctions ... terminate their life on request? Anyone debating this issue, be it for or against physician-assisted suicide, needs ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sophie Y. Wang, BSc, July/August 2014
... antimicrobial resistance demonstrates the severity of this issue and calls for concerted action among all government ... is available at  www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/amr-report/en . To evaluate the scope of the issue, ... resource-constrained settings.[ 1 ] The use of carbapenems may also accelerate the development of carbapenem resistance, ...