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Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... reluctant to self-identify as requiring palliative care may become even more reluctant if the range of services is ... of Oncology released a provisional clinical opinion in 2012 recommending combined palliative care with oncologic ... therapy. Informed consent is only truly informed when this issue has been discussed openly. A palliative approach is ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD July/August 2015
... an opportunity to identify potential billing issues that may require correction. When any statistic on your profile is ... the information provided in your Mini-Profile, read the 2012 Mini Profile – Explanatory Notes document at  ... your Mini-Profile and consider if there may be a potential issue with your flagged measures that could be avoided. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP December 2015
... developed. Often dubbed “walk-in care,” such a system may address the issue of timely access but often fails to offer continuity of ... before reverting to 63.5% in 2010, 60.8% in 2011, 58.5% in 2012, and 66.3% for the first quarter of 2013. Data for ...
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 ... resource-constrained settings.[ 1 ] The use of carbapenems may also accelerate the development of carbapenem resistance, ... between 2007 and 2010 and is reported to be at 25.3% in 2012.[ 2 ] The proportion of  S. pneumoniae  nonsusceptible ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... gift card. Survey responses were collected from November 2012 to January 2013, then combined and analyzed for ... damaging relationships with specialists, this reluctance may be due to lack of confidence in their own deprescribing ... or the challenge of family unavailability. Thus the issue goes far deeper than this financial aspect. A ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ahmad Al-Sarraf, MD, FRCPC, September 2014
Maintaining healthy vision is an important health issue. For many, loss of vision is associated with loss of ... that the high mortality due to the comorbid conditions may partly explain why age-related macular degeneration and ... variety of monofocal intraocular lenses (IOL) until June 2012.[ 8 ] The current standard of care for IOLs is foldable ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... their activities appropriately, and some physicians may be pressured by colleagues to practise outside their area ... currency required. The diagnostic imaging pilot project In 2012 the newly formed Physician Quality Assurance Steering ... the profession, many of which we have discussed here. The issue of currency has been an especially hot topic for ...
News July/August 2013
... for in vivo skin cancer diagnosis,” published in the May 2012 issue of Cancer Re­search. The article can be viewed at ...
News October 2013
... Report was distributed to members as an enclosure with the May issue of the BCMJ. This year’s annual report had a new look ... report, readers were most interested in the highlights of 2012, the financial reports, and the report of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... of services in the Northern Health Authority. Home oxygen may be funded by extended health benefits, if available to ... if they still want oxygen therapy. Costs For the 2011–2012 fiscal year, British Columbia health authorities spent ... of home oxygen remains a concern and continues to be an issue for some patients. For example, in Vancouver Coastal ...