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Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... breast tomosynthesis was approved by Health Canada in 2012, and several sites in BC acquired the technology. It is ... is widely used for screening in the United States. As of March 2022, 82% of American facilities had digital breast ... a modified mammogram machine, so claustrophobia is not an issue, and it is a fraction of the cost of MRI. However, it ...
Editorials / BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC January/February 2022
... the Standards of Care (1979, 1980, 1981, 1990, 1998, 2001, 2012); version 8 is expected to be published in 2022. The ... Transgender Health. This first part of this BCMJ  theme issue highlights health care service delivery and educational ... gender-affirming surgeries that are available in BC. The March issue will feature three more important areas related ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... Ethics Board (#H13-01321). From 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2017, hospitalization data for all ages were obtained ... 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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Antonia Hyman, MSc April 2020
... sought from an advisory committee that had been formed in 2012. This committee was originally a tripartite ... was cohosted by iCON, VCH, Island Health, and FNHA on 15 March 2017. Elders, traditional practitioners, nurses, ... like to acknowledge that the activities discussed in this issue of the BCMJ took place on the traditional unceded ...
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 ... the shortage of psychiatric resources. During 2 weeks in March 2014 nearly a quarter of the patients seen by UHS ... “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: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... by e-mail with C. Voggenreiter, Ministry of Health, March 2013). Several explanations for this high number have ... gift card. Survey responses were collected from November 2012 to January 2013, then combined and analyzed for ... or the challenge of family unavailability. Thus the issue goes far deeper than this financial aspect. A ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) November 2013
... EMR adoption rates have risen from 23% in 2006 to 56% in 2012, countries such as Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and ... close to 80%, and will likely reach 85% or more by 31 March 2014. With PITO (Physician Information Technology ... typed emergency record the very next morning? In this issue of the BCMJ you can read more about this topic and ...
Letters / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC May 2013
... a written copy was not seen until 10 months later on 26 March 2012 when the Section of Clinical Faculty president received ... wording in the LOI calls into question.  I take no issue with those involved in the system, only with the system ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2012
... and didn’t really think more about it. In January 2012 a group of Burnaby physicians wrote a letter to the ... Health Authority outlining their concerns around the issue of C. difficile at their hospital. Burnaby General ... some improved infection control measures. In early March this letter reached the media and it garnered ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, November 2007
... 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 ...