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Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Angela Hu, MD, FRCPC January/February 2025
... early in their career are more likely to work part-time,[ 5,6 ] though after age 38, the number of hours female ... $400 000, 17.0% earned $401 000 to $500 000, and 12.5% earned $501 000 to $800 000 [ Figure 3 ] . In ... rheumatologists earned less than $300 000 annually, 4.5% earned $301 000 to $400 000, 32.0% earned $401 000 ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Marshall Cheng, MD, FRCPC January/February 2025
... that preoperative smoking cessation improves outcomes.[ 5-7 ] Our intervention involved identifying smokers ... had improved. The baseline mean rate for morbidity was 5.8% [ Figure 3 ] . Our rates did not reveal any special ... mean surgical site infection rate was 3.1% [ Figure 5 ] . A special cause variation shift to improvement occurred ...
Clinical Articles, Clinical Case Reports / BY: Denise Werry, PharmD, ACPR January/February 2025
... methicillin-resistant S. aureus tenosynovitis. Despite 5 weeks of daptomycin therapy, the patient developed a new ... bacilli smear-positive aspirate flagged as positive at 5 weeks of incubation. Further incubation at 6 weeks ...
Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2025
... designed especially to serve immigrants within the first 5 years of their arrival in Canada. It was all-encompassing, ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2025
... stable, (4) there is no source control problem, and (5) there is no psychosocial reason to prefer IV therapy.[ 4,5 ] By encouraging clinicians to follow the same criteria, we ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ali Okhowat, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2025
... these antigens are C. corticale spores and/or mycelia.[ 5 ] Acute symptoms of sooty bark disease, which may appear ... breath, and systemic signs such as weight loss and fever.[ 5,6 ] Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is rare, with an annual ... may lead to an increased incidence of sooty bark disease.[ 5 , 13 ] Over time, if sooty bark disease becomes more ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Alex Kilpatrick, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2025
... could result in substantial downstream benefits.[ 5 ] A provincial strategy focusing on CVD prevention is ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2025
... balance is 80% low intensity and 20% high intensity.[ 5,6 ] Elite athletes understand this, and so should we. ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC January/February 2025
... health, social connection, and distraction-free learning.[ 5 ] On the other hand, evidence suggests that youth may also ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD March 2025
... of long-term opioid therapy has been reported to be 5.4% in the United States and 17.6% in Canada.[ 5,6 ] Within most populations and health care settings, the ... misuse and opioid-related overdose and mortality.[ 2 , 3 , 5-7 ] The prevalence of opioid misuse (i.e., the use of ...