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Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... hospitalization data in BC from the 2009–10 to 2016–17 fiscal years were retrospectively described in ... 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 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2020
... where an ongoing public health emergency was declared in April 2016 related to high rates of drug overdose deaths. In the ... making it difficult to determine implicated substances and issue meaningful community alerts. Overdose deaths increased ...
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 ... Following the public health emergency declared in BC in April 2016,[ 21 ] many programs were developed to prevent drug ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
... (229 of 981) presented with mental health concerns. In April 2014 psychiatrists reviewed records for 24 psychiatric ... Board, data collection began and continued until December 2016. Establishing wait times Wait times were calculated for ... “Pit often helps me answer and move forward with an issue that I’m stuck on with a patient. Instead of waiting ...
Obituaries / BY: Susan Bond January/February 2017
... F. Bond died peacefully in his 91st year on 5 November 2016 in his hometown of Kimberley, BC. Alan’s only ambition ... with the College and was a real firebrand on the issue of medical ethics. The ideals of the Hippocratic oath ... family will hold a memorial gathering in his honor on 8 April 2017 at the Kimberley Elks Club. Donations in his ...
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 ... at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in October 2016. This was an exciting achievement, but it highlights the ... Transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Accessed 1 April 2017. ...
Obituaries / BY: Michael Golbey, MD March 2016
... 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 and ...
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 ... a public health emergency was declared in the province in 2016, with 49% of deaths occurring during the pandemic.1 In ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... entered the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, Dr Jack McCreary was a 35-year-old wing commander ... of Anatomy: A surgical case study” in the September 2019 issue of Surgery . Dr William Seidelman, UBC graduate, ... science during the Third Reich. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. Hill R. Jack McCreary: Paediatrician, pedagogue, ...