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Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... Columbia Research Ethics Board (#H13-01321). From 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2017, hospitalization data for all ... [ Figure 3 ]. Conclusions Self-poisoning is a considerable issue in BC, where high rates and increasing trends among ... 10 to 19 throughout the province. In focus groups held in 2010 and 2015 for 12- to 22-year-olds in rural and urban BC, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Fahra Rajabali, MSc September 2018
... care system, and society at large. This public health issue directly affects the practice of physicians who must ... the extent of the injury issue.[ 2 ] Injury costs in BC in 2010 amounted to $3.7 billion in both direct and indirect ... Following the public health emergency declared in BC in April 2016,[ 21 ] many programs were developed to prevent ...
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 ... improved relationships between FPs and specialists.   In 2010, a partnership was formed between PHC and the Shared ... Transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Accessed 1 April 2017. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... on a system with such weaknesses has had consequences. In 2010, the misinterpretation of CT images in three of British ... for diagnostic imaging that would be in place by April 2013. (required) •    The medical community would ... the profession, many of which we have discussed here. The issue of currency has been an especially hot topic for ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2013
... as “A GP for Me.”  Funding will be available as of 1 April on two levels: to divisions of family practice to begin ... Practice Services Committee (GPSC) began work on this issue in 2010 and initially provided funding to three divisions of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Zamil Karim, MD, FRCPC, October 2013
... chart review was conducted from 1 September to 31 October 2010 at two teaching hospitals in Vancouver, BC. This quality ... colitis led to total proctocolectomy and ileostomy on 30 April 1976. The diagnosis was subsequently revised to Crohn ... prednisone prescribed might have been excessive.  On the issue of informed consent, the judge believed that a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alison Granger-Brown, MA, December 2012
... healing benefits.  Screening mammography program In March 2010 a mammography technician and the assistant deputy warden ... and mother health initiative have returned to prison.  In April 2008 the infant and mother health initiative was ... 25 ]  Infant safety has not been reported as an issue in numerous countries where prison infant and mother ...
Obituaries / BY: James E Parker, MB June 2011
1917–2010 The passing of Dr Leslie Glass noted in the obituary column of the April issue of the BCMJ has relevance to our spanking new hospital ...
Letters / BY: John de Couto, MD, June 2010
... by Ipsos Reid as well as Dr Brodie’s commentary [ BCMJ 2010;52:120 ] in the April issue. Dr Brodie writes, under the title “Numbers speak ...
News July/August 2007
... Open Enrollment will be coming your way in the September issue of the  BCMJ. —Sandie Braid, CEBS Assistant ... designated community. The application deadline is 31 March 2010 or until all available funding has been ... of Agreement. The BCMA Board approved the allocation on 13 April 2007. The first $10 million was distributed based on ...