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Letters / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP November 2023
... the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model improve health care, including sustainability?” [ BCMJ ... physician payment levels. As the author correctly notes, “[t]he new model has no incentives to build primary ... the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model improve health care, including sustainability?”   Letters Re: Does ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME July/August 2023
... as long as the referral is for the injury, mental health condition, or occupational disease accepted on the ... guide for these codes ( www.worksafebc.com/en/resources/health-care-providers/guides/how-to-bill-fee-code-19911-19912 ... Referring your WorkSafeBC patients to a specialist, and notes for specialists ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Brandon Tang, MD, MSc September 2020
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, each day has come with new announcements ... our Canadian borders have closed in the spirit of public health and safety. In the midst of these changes, the ... employers to abandon the practice of asking for sick notes,[ 18 ] public health offices are offering a general ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Dixon January/February 2020
... department has played a significant role in the workplace health and safety research landscape in BC. By fostering ... and workplace studies. Higher-level population-based health research is often helpful when looking ahead, and ... a research training award recipient, and peer reviewer. He notes that because the review process includes employer and ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2020
... the foundation for efficient, effective, and sustainable health care is well supported by evidence and is now being acknowledged broadly by government policymakers, health care administrators, and our medical associations as ... for change, however, goes beyond compensation. As Dr Brown notes, physicians need to be supported by a network that ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... difficult conversations about end-of-life care. Exploding health care costs, expanding need for seniors’ health care, opioid overuse, and controversies about futile ... as physicians or our patient’s needs?[ 2 ] Nuland also notes how sometimes physicians will provide false hope in an ...
Letters / BY: Laurence W. Lee, MD, FRCPC October 2017
... the appropriate preformatted documents, be they admission notes, progress notes, consultations, or discharge summaries, ... without the need to repeat data entry. The history of past health would be repeated automatically on the admitting ... data would be added the next time in the history of past health section. A discharge summary could be primarily ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Colin Jackson, MD, FRCSC May 2017
... violence is one of the risks that come with working in health care. Physicians who work in environments where ... A  Canadian Medical Association Journal  article[ 1 ] notes that almost all primary care physicians experience ... increase with the growing number of patients with mental health and substance abuse problems. The physical and ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Kelly Mayson, MD, FRCPC December 2016
... initiative with representation from all regional health authorities that sought to implement several ... Services Committee, a partnership of the Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC. Translating evidence-based medicine ... techniques for colorectal surgery. These clinical guidance notes have been reviewed and shared with the BC ...
Letters / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI March 2014
... ). Some points deserve clarification. In the Health Notes intended for women they state, “Two possible benefits ...