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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
... 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 ...