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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 ...
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 ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD November 2021
... colleagues on the front lines, people working in public health, politicians, government employees, health care researchers, and teachers … the list goes on. ... to contribute to it. I’m going to keep sending thank-you notes to people. I’m going to keep encouraging people who ...
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 ...
News, COVID-19 October 2020
A team from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University has made ... blood samples from critically ill patients at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC). They build on a growing body ... statistical methods and artificial intelligence. The team notes that predicting a patient’s disease severity can help ...
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 ...
News October 2019
... and then submit to the European Medicines Agency and Health Canada. The trials considered in the approvals are usually the same. Dr Loree also notes that they weren’t able to analyze the participation ...
News March 2019
... University of British Columbia professor in the Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing, Kelowna, ... of living well with an awareness of dying. Robinson notes that globally there are 14.1 million new cancer cases ... with awareness of dying,” was published in Qualitative Health Research . It is available online at ...