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Beyond Medicine / BY: Eiko Waida, MD, FRCPC, FAAP* March 2024
In 2018, the senior executive team of the Interior Health Authority (IHA) supported the Physician Quality ... better outcomes, and reducing the per capita cost of health care. The dyadic partnership is not a new concept in ... statements from survey participants]. Example: Handwritten notes. One of the PQI dyad projects addressed the need for ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD April 2022
... Then one day I was introduced to the idea of the community health centre (CHC) model: Community Health Centres are created by not-for-profit organizations ... STEPS, allowing all of the clinicians to access and make notes in the same EMR; therefore, the continuity of care is ...
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 / 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2021
... Children’s and Women’s, BC Cancer, Providence Health Care, and the UBC Clinical Research Ethics Board. ... with UBC can get started at www.rise.ubc.ca/guidance-notes-and-tutorials . Acknowledgments Dr Dunne would like to ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD January/February 2019
... years ago that patients need to take charge of their own health. Expanding on programs studied at Stanford, he created ... their symptoms are more likely to take charge of their own health.[ 5 ]  Many physicians are not aware of ... coordinator of the Interior Self-Management Program, notes that the various Self-Management BC programs have been ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD June 2019
... office day in my community family practice. Periodic health/preventive exams, and geriatric and counseling visits ... 8:30 a.m. patients arrive seeking advice from the trusted health care professional that has looked after them for 26 ... their care. I am “the best doctor ever.” Several chart notes, care planning reviews, diagnostic forms, referrals, a ...