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Clinical Articles / BY: Elisabeth Baerg Hall, MD, CCFP, FRCPC November 2023
... symptoms to be present in at least two settings, such as home and work, with clear evidence of impairment as indicated ... medication. The Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance’s one-page medication summary sheet includes a medication titration ... include a discussion about safe medication storage in the home and in contexts associated with medication diversion and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hannah Gibson, MBChB May 2023
... by the Government of Canada.[ 9 ] Canada’s national At Home/Chez Soi study of Housing First presented an overview of ... for those who experience chronic homelessness” (page 66).[ 13 ] While housing is an important determinant of ... obtain stable housing. Goering and colleagues’ 2014 At Home/Chez Soi report noted that the intervention resulted in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Ng, MD, CCFP June 2023
... required for all divisions): Log in to the members-only page of your division of family practice. Contact your ... regions. See Table S1 . The division of family practice home pages were consulted for divisions whose names were not ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Mandy Ruthnum, MD, FCFP January/February 2021
13 November 2020 Did you know that you may have to stay home for 24 days if one of your children tests positive for ... later to get the result. In the meantime, we would stay at home so as not to potentially expose anybody else. At home, ... the numbers that apply to all citizens across Canada. Back Page COVID-19 The first swab ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Kristina Jenei, BSN September 2020
... in regulating our global climate. These environments are home to animals and insects that carry known human pathogens ... like predators.” Competing interests None declared. Back Page COVID-19 On reading Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Abe Zacharias, MD, FRCPC July/August 2020
... with the hospital routine. I looked forward to going home to Winkler on the weekend. Just as I arrived home, our family doctor called, wanting to see me. His first ... assistance with the preparation of this article. Back Page COVID-19 Quarantine, tuberculosis, and the curtailment ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanda Hill, MBChB, FRCPC March 2017
... making is summarized in the  Figure  on the following page. The process begins with an evaluation of frailty and ... and postoperative complication, discharge to nursing home, and length of hospital stay with reasonable predictive ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... allows health authorities to provide equipment in the home when appropriate. While such benefits support patients ... community, the team may consist of the family physician, home care nurse, pharmacist, and neighbors. Other centres may ... Care Benefits: www.esdc.gc.ca/en/ei/compassionate/index.page Source of information about benefits available to ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... of my colleagues who had the weekend off. There was a page over the hospital intercom—“Dr Ruddiman to the ... considering the empathy that was generated in our home I’m disappointed in myself when I think back. Having ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd January/February 2015
... emerged and medical practice began to shift from home to office and hospital. Internal medicine and general ... of BC Guide to Fees  to a 1950s version with a one-page wee index,[ 2 ] the differences are glaring. It’s like ...