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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.[ ... conditions had a multimorbidity prevalence of 12.9% in 2011/12.[ 3 ] BCCDC’s recent analysis of 16 chronic ...
Letters /
BY: Stuart Kreisman, MD
January/February 2018
... ] and of course I agree very strongly. You may recall my Premise piece, “Toward smoke-free multi-unit dwellings” [ BCMJ 2011;53:400-401 ]. Unfortunately our various levels of government have done little to move this issue forward over the last 6 years. Things are much better ...
Letters /
BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC
May 2013
... the BCMA’s pledge to support its members who are now, or may in the future become, clinical faculty teachers/mentors ... LOI was at the Section of Clinical Faculty AGM on 5 May 2011 when the BCMA president announced that it was to be ... wording in the LOI calls into question. I take no issue with those involved in the system, only with the system ...
Letters /
BY: Judith Hammond,
July/August 2013
... as one of three gluten-induced conditions.[ 2 ] A small 2011 study recruited 34 patients who self-identified as ... with our patients—there are some aspects of the issue that we understand well, some that are controversial ... mind when communicating with patients: what is dogma today may be called into question by new evidence tomorrow. If all ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC
June 2012
Opioid overdose is a public health issue in British Columbia. In 2009, more than 200 deaths were ... were in persons prescribed opioid medication.[ 3 ] In May 2011, the BC Coroners Service released a warning about a ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC
March 2012
... motor vehicle crashes. From 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011, there were 68 alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths ... in exactly the positive changes that would be expected. In May 2011, opponents of the new laws launched a legal ... of the immediate roadside prohibition program. At issue was whether the immediate roadside prohibition program ...
Interviews /
BY: Jay Draper
January/February 2012
... strategist, and policy advisor to the BCMA in November 2011. BCMJ managing editor Jay Draper spoke to him in ... for in those circumstances where it is a direct one-on-one issue or conflict. And yet now that I’m here, I see so many ... final thoughts? Members who aren’t involved in the BCMA may wonder what goes on here, and they can be assured that ...
Letters /
BY: Stephen D. Anderson, MD, FRCPC
May 2011
... interventions for traumatic brain injury," BCMJ 2011;53:26-31 ]. Their article outlined a number of ... quetiapine) are often necessary. Antipsychotic medication may also be required for patients who have chronic ... by the medications listed in the article. The important issue in treating patients following severe brain injury is ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Bill Mackie, MD
November 2011
... which prevalent antibiotic use is of concern. In the June 2011 issue of Microbe, the report “Restricting antimicrobial ... Now that this is CMA policy the future of medical care may favorably alter, particularly for infectious disease and ...
Letters /
BY: Sheri Souch,
October 2011
... Columbia: Are we really missing an epidemic?” [ BCMJ 2011;53:224-229 ]. I can only assume that the title is an ... are finding novel strains and warn that current testing may not be picking up these local strains.[ 3 , 4 ] Henry ... a clear indication that something is amiss.[ 5 ] Another issue of importance is surveillance. Henry and Morshed point ...