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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 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD October 2019
In 2014 the BC Ministry of Health’s report, “Setting Priorities for the BC Health System,” outlined information management and ... medical records (EMRs) to enter or retrieve patient notes, an increase from 26% in 2007.[ 4 ] More recently, the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Justin Burton, MSc, UBC Medicine, Class of 2018 January/February 2018
... boat from Iquitos in northeastern Peru. The CSSC provides health care and support services to approximately 15 000 ... the Angels from Quebec took on the tasks of education and health care in the region between 1951 and 1991 as ... fecal smear), nor did I understand the various shorthand notes and synonyms for Spanish descriptions. These would soon ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Kelly Mayson, MD, FRCPC December 2016
... initiative with representation from all regional health authorities that sought to implement several ... Services Committee, a partnership of the Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC. Translating evidence-based medicine ... techniques for colorectal surgery. These clinical guidance notes have been reviewed and shared with the BC ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Andrew Hurlburt, MD April 2016
... become pregnant should discuss all travel plans with their health care provider to assess their risk for Zika exposure ... and unclear duration of persistence in tissues, the Public Health Agency of Canada recommends that women returning from ... that her pregnancy might be affected. The patient notes that she and her husband did get a few mosquito bites ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, June 2015
... hopefully have better answers for him then. I make some notes as I walk to the intensive care unit to see a patient I ... Many thanks to all the physicians, nurses, and allied health care and medical program support staff involved in the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Joshua Lai, BSc, January/February 2013
... patient. But she was already recording the pressure in her notes. “Aren’t you going to check it too?” I asked, ... embarrassed, but didn’t want that to compromise Bob’s health; the dilemma burned in my throat. But before I could ...
MDs To Be / BY: Joanne Bleackley, BSc, October 2013
... flip through the history, lab values, orders, and surgery notes, my stomach gives a loud growl. Great. An-other ... haul. We were imagining countless hours trapped in the health records department. However, as we continued with the ... rec-ord, including the doctor’s orders, the nurse’s notes, and the pathology report. Soon, our process became ...