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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 ... Abstract Database, BC Ministry of Health. From 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2017, hospitalizations were extracted from ... [ Figure 3 ]. Conclusions Self-poisoning is a considerable issue in BC, where high rates and increasing trends among ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... sales increased by 33% in the last year and by 700% since 2012.[ 8 ] This makes the US cannabis market larger than that ... of cannabis products in the surveyed period (February to April 2018) ( Figure 1 ).[ 11 ] Approximately 8% of all users ... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
Background Atul Gawande’s 2012 TED Talk about improving health care (How do we heal ... (229 of 981) presented with mental health concerns. In April 2014 psychiatrists reviewed records for 24 psychiatric ... “Pit often helps me answer and move forward with an issue that I’m stuck on with a patient. Instead of waiting ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... currency required. The diagnostic imaging pilot project In 2012 the newly formed Physician Quality Assurance Steering ... 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: Morgan Price, MD, PhD, CCFP, December 2013
... and can decrease overall health care costs.  On 1 April 2013 the BCMA and the provincial government announced A ... the attachment work at the local level. In 2011–2012, this Division worked with representatives from the ... of Victoria’s eHealth Observatory to explore the issue of attachment in the region and ways to improve it. ...
Obituaries July/August 2012
  In the April issue of the  BCMJ  ( 2012;54[3]:149-149 ) we printed the obituary of Vancouver ...
Letters / BY: Raymond J. Ancill, MB, June 2012
... that I read the editorial authored by Dr Richardson in the April 2012 issue of the Journal. Apart from assuming that every ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD June 2012
... frustrating issues in lifestyle counseling. In the BCMJ April issue I was glad to see the Council on Health Promotion ... focus to health, not weight: First, do no harm,  BCMJ  [ 2012;54:144 ].  Weight loss is incredibly difficult for most ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, November 2007
... Master Agreement and the subsidiary agreements is from 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2012. The Physician Master Agreement supersedes the Amended ... of services. Included in the polybag with this month’s issue of the  BC Medical Journal  is a Membership Guide to ...
Blog / BY: Amanda Lavigne, BScPN
ABSTRACT: On 16 April 2022, the province of British Columbia will enter its ... Harms related to substance use remain a top public health issue in virtually every jurisdiction across Canada. In ... Service. Illicit drug toxicity deaths in BC: January 1, 2012 - January 31, 2022. Accessed 7 April 2022. ...