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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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bidu, MBA December 2017
... I would be in the business of making other people’s health better. But that changed when I met Dr Eric Topol,[ 1 ] a cardiologist, geneticist, and digital health researcher at the Scripps Translational Science ... advisor to Google, calls it exponential acceleration and notes that the law of accelerating returns affects every ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Chan, MD, MHsc March 2017
... Clinical Research Ethics Board and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. All deceased-donor liver ... operative reports, radiology studies, outpatient clinic notes, and all available follow-up information obtained at ... of all cases. Despite limitations inherent when comparing health care systems and patient populations, a comparison of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alexa R.Y. Dang, BSc July/August 2017
... that including additional information would make these notes more useful to FPs following patients after RT and ... Columbia, the Research Review Committee at Northern Health, and the joint Research Ethics Board of BCCA and the ... Shared Care Committee of Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health. Results Of the 180 questionnaires mailed to family ...
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: ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Travis Holyk, EdD November 2017
... of rural communities face unique challenges when accessing health care. Factors that can make access to care difficult ... residents of rural communities have comparatively poorer health outcomes and lower socioeconomic status than residents ... each time, and visiting physicians sometimes took their notes to their own offices.  In 2010, CSFS began developing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elena Terekhova, MD, PhD June 2017
... used telehealth services are those associated with mental health, cardiology, diabetes, genetics, oncology, neurology, ... that telemedicine can be a safe option for providing health care and can lead to many favorable outcomes.[ 3-7 ] ... for bronchitis.[ 10 ] As well, the BC Ministry of Health notes that the fragmented, unmanaged approach to the ...
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 ...
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 ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... and following the recommendations of an independent Child Health BC report, the BC government announced a new, ... parents no longer have to choose between their child’s health and their family’s financial security. One father ... the Unsafe at School website as they are available. News&Notes Special feature: Safe at school at last ...