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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kate Smolina, DPhil, CHE June 2024
... well-being and result in significant costs to the health care system.[ 1 ] In BC, the number of people living ... and are available by age group, sex, and geographic health region. Information on gender is not available. For ... BC Observatory for Population and Public Health, BCCDC Notes The BC Chronic Disease Registries are produced by the ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
News&Notes December 2017
... Bri­tish Columbia is on the cusp of great change. Rural health care has met the information technology age and things ... between the au­thor and a strongly supportive Northern Health Authority. It was a proposal that articulated the need ... this program.  This article has been peer reviewed. News&Notes Special report: Rural echocardiography in northern BC: ...
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 ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper December 2016
... that has conducted member and employee research in the health care sector for 20 years. We received hundreds of ... report: BCMJ 2016 Member/Reader Research report (PDF) News&Notes BCMJ member research results ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Andrew Hurlburt, MD April 2016
... become pregnant should discuss all travel plans with their health care provider to assess their risk for Zika exposure ... and unclear duration of persistence in tissues, the Public Health Agency of Canada recommends that women returning from ... that her pregnancy might be affected. The patient notes that she and her husband did get a few mosquito bites ...
News&Notes April 2015
... epigenome. The project, called the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Epigenomics Program, provides a core set of ... for studying the role of the epigenome in human health and disease. In particular, the paper “Integrative ... the program, visit  www.roadmapepigenomics.org . News&Notes BC researchers unravel health/disease map ...