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Clinical Articles / BY: Courtney Young, MBA, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... attention was focused on how QI could favorably affect the issue of medical errors. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) was ... in the US. The IOM then published a follow-up report in 2001, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the ... Transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Accessed 1 April 2017. ...
Obituaries / BY: Michael Golbey, MD March 2016
... chief of staff at Kelowna General Hospital from 1983 to 2001, Dr White had the insight, expertise, and charm to drive ... British Columbia’s approach to the hepatitis C issue, including testing and lookback recommendations. Dr ... (Hong Kong). A Celebration of Life will be held on 2 April 2016 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 pm) at Two Eagles Golf Course ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2008
... any increases had always been modest (3% and under, with 2001, 2006, 2007, and 2008 at 0%). With careful management of ... of General Practitioners of BC for their patience on this issue. Dr Bryan Norton, president of the Society of General ... raised the subject of BCMA governance referendum. Though April’s referendum did not achieve the 75% approval rate ...
News / BY: Tara Lyon April 2007
... a little book about the flu (reviewed in the December 2006 issue) and thinks he is an author. The “Laminator” has ... of February. Interested vendors had until the beginning of April to submit their proposals, and up to a maximum of six ... Leave Benefit Program that was negotiated for you in the 2001 working agreement between the BCMA and the government of ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Westby, MD September 2005
... in response to Dr Jack Burak’s excellent article from April 2005 entitled, “BC’s technologically challenged ... working in the far north of New Zealand in the winter of 2001. I rotated about small rural Maori communities doing ... attach these into an EMR system is a significant resource issue as it takes up both the time of the physician and staff ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cynthia Fan, MD October 2005
... use in BC grew by 5.5% between the fiscal years ending in 2001 and 2002, declined by 0.6% over the course of the next ... controlled trials and meta-analyses examining this issue. [4-16]  The most recent attempt to answer the ... Albumin Use in BC. Data collection was scheduled from 15 April to 15 June 2003. Smaller facilities were encouraged to ...
Editorials / BY: Jean Hlady, MD, FRCPC March 2004
... the common physical signs of abuse and neglect. In 2001, results from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported ... protection investigation. In this first of a two-part issue about child maltreatment, we begin with a detailed ... assist in holding those who abuse them accountable. In the April issue, we will present four articles about child and ...
Editorials / BY: Donald B. Calne, OC, DM May 2001
In the April 2001 issue of the BC Medical Journal, five papers were ... pathogenesis, pathology, and imaging. In this issue, the theme of Parkinson’s disease is continued, but ...
College Library / BY: Jim Henderson October 2001
... research paper they review. Titles from the July/August 2001 issue include “Rate and rhythm control showed similar ... Club . Note that the electronic version lags behind; March/April 2001 is the latest update available a month after the ...
College Library / BY: Jim Henderson December 2001
Last April, Dr George Szasz resigned from the College’s Library ... of library staff. In the April 1961 “Library special issue” of the BCMJ, he said: “This maze of printed ... impenetrable without our librarians.” In the August 2001 issue of Cites & Bytes celebrating 5 years of ...