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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... disease in a popular textbook, Dr Pestana’s Surgery Notes , printed in 2020. According to the textbook, the ... of Cushing as a very humane physician).  Cushing’s health declined in the last 20 years of his life. He had ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... provincial legislature, and champion of publicly funded health insurance. Upon his death in 1939 he was called a ... a cultural and trading centre of the central coast. His notes on the artifacts he collected (now in the Royal Ontario ... He taught me how important team work was in the health professions, and that aging is not a disease. He ...
Blog / BY: Linda Hawker, MD
... Conference of Deputy Ministers of Health due to concerns with health care spending, postulated that rising health care ... and retrieving records. Thick charts stuffed with clinic notes, test results, forms, and consultants’ letters gave ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... name. We were responsible for the history and follow-up notes, reaching out for consultations when needed, calling ... patient and family confusion about which doctor or which health professional is or was in charge during a hospital ... and the lack of fiscal compensation inherent in various health care systems may be yet other factors in focusing on ...