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Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel J. Lithwick, MHA, April 2016
... records were investigated over a 26-year period (1986 to 2011) to determine the incidence and causes of SCD in high ... screening without an ECG. Finally, potential differences may have existed within the study populations: the athletes ... (0.9%).[ 13 ] High false-positive rates have also been an issue in screening with history and physical examination. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP December 2015
... increase in the population catchment area from 2006 to 2011.[ 4 ] The move by full-service family physicians to ... developed. Often dubbed “walk-in care,” such a system may address the issue of timely access but often fails to offer continuity of ...
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 ... moving to a system of criteria-based privileging. Since 2011 the provincial Privileging Standards Project has been ... the profession, many of which we have discussed here. The issue of currency has been an especially hot topic for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... HF mortality.[ 5 ] Serum b-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) may be helpful for prognostication as well, since BNP levels ... Clinic was introduced at St. Paul’s Hospital in January 2011, and later at Vancouver General Hospital. The objective ... revised version of the article published in the June 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:224-229). The authors corrected an ...
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 ... privately if they still want oxygen therapy. Costs For the 2011–2012 fiscal year, British Columbia health authorities ... of home oxygen remains a concern and continues to be an issue for some patients. For example, in Vancouver Coastal ...
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 ...
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 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Annika Klopp, BSc, April 2012
In the summer of 2011 we participated in a project to look at the potential of ... experiences, we are concerned the idea of Art Days may be perceived differently than we in­tended. We know in ... values of a patient are different from one’s own.  The issue of cultural safety has moved beyond New Zealand 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 ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD June 2011
... they deserve. And that will be the main focus of this issue’s column. Screening tool for partner violence We hear ... Association as “a pattern of coercive behaviors that may include repeated battering and injury, psychological ... look forward to celebrating his installation on 11 June 2011 as our next president. —Ian Gillespie, MD BCMA ...