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Letters / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP November 2023
... the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model improve health care, including sustainability?” [ BCMJ ... physician payment levels. As the author correctly notes, “[t]he new model has no incentives to build primary ... the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model improve health care, including sustainability?”   Letters Re: Does ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2020
... the foundation for efficient, effective, and sustainable health care is well supported by evidence and is now being acknowledged broadly by government policymakers, health care administrators, and our medical associations as ... for change, however, goes beyond compensation. As Dr Brown notes, physicians need to be supported by a network that ...
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 ...
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 ...
News March 2019
... Complex Care Planning and Management Fee G14043: GP Mental Health Planning Fee G14063: GP Palliative Care Planning Fee ... and Management Fee Simplifying billing The Personal Health Risk Assessment (Prevention) (G14066) has been amended ... age 80+ It is recommended that GPs ensure that clinical notes for any 0120 or GPSC mental health management fee ...
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 January/February 2017
A recent study by UBC medical researchers examined the health care costs associated with lumpectomy patients ... double recommended targets, the additional cost to BC’s health care system alone is $2 million per year. Study author ... targets, and report cards provided to surgeons. Dr Baliski notes that, in Canada, 23% of women require additional ...
Letters / BY: Laurence W. Lee, MD, FRCPC October 2017
... the appropriate preformatted documents, be they admission notes, progress notes, consultations, or discharge summaries, ... without the need to repeat data entry. The history of past health would be repeated automatically on the admitting ... data would be added the next time in the history of past health section. A discharge summary could be primarily ...
News / BY: Laura McLean March 2017
The American Medical Association notes that there are over 48 000 genetic tests currently available for health risk screening or diagnostic purposes, and the number ... of genetic testing for individuals seeking life and health insurance. The Canadian Coalition for Genetic Fairness ...