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Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2003
... group tended to have a higher rate of losing contact in follow-up. The Cantonese-speaking group had lower ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
... instance, needle exchange programs provide only fleeting contact with drug users and are extremely limited in their ... services include street outreach nursing, needle exchange, contact centres, and supervised injecting facilities. Among ... were initiated, it was observed that the sustained contact with health care professionals enabled substantially ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Timothy K.S. Christie, PhD April 2003
... the index case chooses to disclose his or her partners’ contact information, without consent to do so, the index ... would be if the index case is the partner’s sole contact. This would allow the partner to readily deduce who ... or her partners. The public health professional will then contact the partners, tell them of their potential exposure, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc April 2003
... provincial health authorities and that public health will contact the health care provider and sometimes the positive ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD April 2003
... provide names of all past partners is a fairly big gap in contact case identification. One has to wonder how big this ... testing of individuals whose body fluids come into contact with any first responder? Finally, if the HIV status ... even with mandatory testing there are problems because the contact may be a high-risk person who is negative but is ...
Letters / BY: Michael Priest, MD April 2003
... might well be your response! However, the delay between my contact with the general surgeon and operation was less than ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc May 2003
... about recent blood donation or transfusion and should contact Canadian Blood Services directly (phone 1 888 ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2003
... possible size of invader, but I was intrigued when first-contact officials in both countries questioned if we had been ... any bad bugs on the ground we certainly could have come in contact with them. I helped the gauchos castrate pigs as ... the worst of Pampas soils, so once again my potential for contact was quite high. I have been trying to inventory the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stuart Johnston, MD May 2003
... hiring a full-time coordinator to act as a single point of contact for telehealth consultation requests. Hiring this ...
Editorials / BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC July/August 2003
... but they seem unable to provide continuity, in that contact is episodic and that most do not provide any ...