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Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce C. Carleton, PharmD, September 2006
... cited serious and life-threatening ADRs to be a safety issue of concern. The effect of this apparent concern has ... difficulty of recognizing ADRs when they occur. Clinicians may believe another member of the health care team will ... use is corroborated by BC PharmaNet data (1998 to 2001), which indicate that, on average, over 530 000 children ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2005
... central coast region of British Columbia. According to the 2001 census 2285 people live in the Bella Coola Valley, and ... living in the Bella Coola Valley between August 2001 and May 2002. Questionnaires were mailed out three times: the ... more difficult for others to even recognize this important issue.” [56] The finding of a relationship between ...
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 ... data from 23 April to 15 June, two collected from 1 May to 15 July, and three collected from 15 April to 15 July. ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... reveals that practices concerning HIV test counseling may not be optimal. Common shortcuts in counseling—giving ... areas of more than 100 000 residents (according to the 2001 Canadian census) were classified in this study as urban. ... to generalize from this sample, primarily because of the issue of self-selection. Physicians who are more involved in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erin E. Michalak, PhD October 2002
... decisions (see  Anderson and colleagues   in this issue). Although there is evidence for the efficacy of ... improved outcomes in patients with MDD. Further benefits may include better use of fiscal resources, optimal use of ... or in a mental health clinic) 377 198‡ 82%|| * BC Stats, 2001. † Health Information Access Centre, 2001. Note that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Allen, MD June 2002
The work of Dr Charles Galasko and colleagues  in this issue of the BCMJ outlines some of the claims rates in ... these provisos, there are some general statistics that may be of interest. The whiplash rate in various Western ... Columbia, oral and written communications, June and July 2001.) In BC, the whiplash claims rate is currently about 900 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul C. Adams, MD March 2002
... ). As described in  Dr Samuel Krikler's article  in this issue of the  BCMJ , a screening study of 1905 adult men ... of iron overload or deficiency and focus on those that may require phlebotomy therapy. However, it also detects a ... Life and Health Insurance Association Annual Meeting 2001) about insurance ratings based on hemochromatosis ...
Clinical Articles September 2001
... residents being trained in British Columbia to address the issue. Cardiologists fear these factors are currently ... retention, and earlier or later retirement that may occur due to political or economic changes. Population ... non-visa cardiology residents per year (starting in the 2001–2002 academic year) for the next 20 years to reach an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP October 2001
... prominent. Once menses cease, symptoms stabilize, but may be quite disabling for 30% of menopausal women ( Table 1 ... will appear in Dr Timothy Rowe’s article in the November 2001 issue of the  BCMJ ). All estrogens are equally effective ...
Clinical Articles / BY: William J. Sullivan, BA, LLB, MCL July / August 2001
... respond to an emergency call. Updated as of 1 June 2001, the directive can now be combined with a “No CPR” ... the authority of that decision-maker. Family consensus may well remain the way to arrive at a decision, but ... extend to assisted suicide, although it remains a societal issue and, specifically, an issue for physicians. Futility ...