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