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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kate Smolina, DPhil, CHE Early online
... well-being and result in significant costs to the health care system.[ 1 ] In BC, the number of people living ... and are available by age group, sex, and geographic health region. Information on gender is not available. For ... BC Observatory for Population & Public Health, BCCDC Notes The BC Chronic Disease Registries are produced by the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: William Liu, BHSc Early online
... Recently, this formidable tool has made strides in health care. While AI solutions expand and work toward ... surge to ensure effective and safe implementation in our health care system.  AI in health care is developing ... to address these concerns—for example, automatic SOAP notes, where AI listens in on a patient encounter, analyzes ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME July/August 2023
... as long as the referral is for the injury, mental health condition, or occupational disease accepted on the ... guide for these codes ( www.worksafebc.com/en/resources/health-care-providers/guides/how-to-bill-fee-code-19911-19912 ... Referring your WorkSafeBC patients to a specialist, and notes for specialists ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Amritpal Maniani, BSc April 2023
... the BC Centre for Disease Control and the BC Ministry of Health has led to the creation of the Provincial Overdose ... Cohort, which includes linked administrative data on health care use. While these robust databases delineate where ... verbatim by Google Recorder in offline mode without field notes. The transcripts were manually reviewed for accuracy ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Cheryl Young, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
... for using ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19, health authorities worldwide, including Health Canada, have not authorized such use. Nevertheless, ... data from standard record fields as well as verbatim case notes. Information captured included demographics of the ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD March 2021
... little anger, a few tears, a departure from their speaking notes. Others demonstrate care through service, such as pinch ... We need to convince more people to follow public health directions, even as high-risk and vulnerable people ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2021
... by Dr Babak Shadgan, a researcher at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, the study concluded that IRT ... active and well-developed COVID-19 infection. Underlying health conditions, stress, pregnancy, certain medications, ... can also alter someone’s surface body temperature. He notes that this can result in a false positive or false ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) September 2021
... to stay home and bang pots at 7 p.m. daily in tribute to health care heroes. The spider-bitten, no longer fearful of ... of the royal crest of England. ¶ I wish each of you health and happiness as we and the public we serve emerge ... elevatum pressura sanguinem ) and those in need of work notes ( litteras excusationem ab opereor ) or prescription ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Dixon January/February 2020
... department has played a significant role in the workplace health and safety research landscape in BC. By fostering ... and workplace studies. Higher-level population-based health research is often helpful when looking ahead, and ... a research training award recipient, and peer reviewer. He notes that because the review process includes employer and ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Brandon Tang, MD, MSc September 2020
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, each day has come with new announcements ... our Canadian borders have closed in the spirit of public health and safety. In the midst of these changes, the ... employers to abandon the practice of asking for sick notes,[ 18 ] public health offices are offering a general ...