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Clinical Articles / BY: David B. Miller, MD, FRCPC June 2005
... organizations, and journals. The ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guideline defines an adverse event as any ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael D.D. McNeely, MD, FRCPC, FCACB July/August 2005
... for the new BC chronic kidney disease (CKD) clinical practice guidelines. The test An ideal routine test of ... of a creatinine clearance (u − Cr × V/s − Cr). In practice, there are limitations to this formal measurement of ... 14 different adult ranges. This would render the clinical practice guidelines unnecessarily complex. A simplified ...
Clinical Articles / BY: R. Kirk Poulos, MD July/August 2005
... poor communication are distressingly common in clinical practice and as in Mr J.’s case can lead to a suboptimal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gregory M.F. Ganz, MD, CM, FRCPC July/August 2005
... a cursory review and which need to be incorporated into practice can be very challenging. Multiple strategies can be ... to allow the implementation of guidelines in family practice. There are many different strategies that can assist ... to worsen as fewer graduating physicians choose family practice as a career. In the 2004 CaRMS match, only 26.4% of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lesley A. Stevens, MD, FRCPC July/August 2005
... which have been synthesized into evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. [5,6]  However, care for patients with ... for the presence of CKD. In order to assess the current practice patterns for testing of kidney disease, we undertook ... agreed to participate in the study. The physician and practice characteristics of the participants were as follows: ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2005
... the BCMA’s approach of solving the problems of general practice in British Columbia, arguing that “rather than defending general practice, the BCMA is destroying it.” Response from the ... equally fiery. There was general agreement that general practice is in crisis, and perhaps even on its deathbed, but ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
... and we don’t know just what their standards of practice will be, since they’re not available yet. What lab ... report to. As a profession we welcome them into our family practice offices, but there are certainly questions about how ... attention? The new stuff that’s coming from the General Practice Services Committee on revitalizing family practice ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Galt Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2005
... more newly graduated family physicians forsake traditional practice and become hospitalists, walk-in clinic doctors, or ... are the best predictors of young doctors choosing rural practice. [14-18]  Such applicants are two to three times more likely to enter rural practice and, once there, are more likely to stay. Third, all ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG September 2005
... they enter medical school. The unpredictability of medical practice In the 18th century, Alexander Pope (1688–1744) ... can support but never replace bedside learning. The practice of medicine is not an exact science; there are more ... which will stand them in good stead when they enter practice. At the same time, students attend lectures from ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Fairholm, MD, FRCSC September 2005
... of health care, and the changing economics of medical practice have forced us to reconsider how we educate new ... an experienced physician who models the art of medical practice should be paramount in the education of medical ... must acquire scientific information and then put it into practice. They must learn clinical and healing skills and ...