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Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP December 2022
... article on this topic originally appeared in the November 2014 issue of the BCMJ . As this subject continues to pose a ... Committee decided to revisit the topic. While physicians may view documentation of services as time-consuming, it is ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... and Wylie of Laval University conducted a short review in 2014 and identified what they viewed as the most significant issue with existing studies supporting ultrasound: the ... physicians at initial presentation of minor blunt trauma may in fact speed up rib fracture diagnosis by helping triage ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Drona Rasali, PhD, FACE May 2020
... and the health care resources required to manage it may be much greater than the sum of single diseases.[ 2 , 3 ] ... increasingly becoming a key public health and primary care issue in the prevention and management of chronic diseases.[ ... BC residents 20 years or older had multimorbidity (2+) in 2014/15.[ 2 ] Another Canadian study using data for five ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because one “daily user” may smoke all day, every day, and another “daily user” ... urine drug screen, more than quadrupled between 2005 and 2014 (from 146 to 639).[ 25 ] That trend will continue ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Derek Smith, MD, FRCSC September 2018
... with possible surgical pathology, such as osteoarthritis, may be referred to an orthopaedic surgeon, who often repeats ... the importance of obtaining weight-bearing X-rays. But the issue is hardly limited to Canada. A 2012 British study found ... orthopaedic clinic had had weight-bearing films. Another 2014 British study found 98% of nontraumatic knee radiographs ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2016
... to those they care for, and they do work while sick and may transmit influenza while asymptomatically shedding ... the arbitrator in Ontario that Mr Offley quotes) is on the issue of whether there is any additional benefit to an ... of protection from year to year (from the low of 13% in 2014–15 to over 80% in 2010–11 in Canada with an accepted ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... all the generalist pieces of being a family doctor my dad may not have had an opportunity that day to receive the best ... the health care needs of our populations. What health care issue do you think is not getting enough attention right now? ... First, the Commonwealth Fund released a report in late 2014 showing that Canada scores 10th out of 11 in First World ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
... in health care today. We need not look further than the 2014 comparative scorecard from the Commonwealth Fund ... like to bring to the Board this year is temperance. This may help us be more efficient with our work.” . . . “To ... is not a productive use of our time and energy. The issue is that our two work models simply clash. Doctors are ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Will Offley, RN December 2016
... are not the same thing. There are many ways an individual may be infected with influenza despite having had the annual ... As an example, many infections occurred in the 2014–15 flu season when there was a mismatch between the ... and in the absence of an outbreak.”[ 12 ] Also at issue is the practical matter of wearing masks. It appears ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Clayton Chmelik, December 2015
... As part of this process the claim owner or medical advisor may contact you to confirm the worker’s current symptoms, ... treatment recommendations for nonsurgical conditions. In 2014 the VSC’s 41 specialists provided more than 8000 ... WorkSafeBC article published in the January/February 2013 issue of the  BCMJ  (2013:55;17), available online at  ...