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Clinical Articles / BY: Robin Friedlander, MD, FRCPC October 2023
... as informed by recent developments in the field. While we may touch on areas of evolving knowledge, it is beyond the ... born in Sweden over a 10-year period, from 1993 to 2002, and found that the year-over-year prevalence of the ... necessary in some cases. A companion article in this issue reviews the psychopharmacological treatment of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C. Bruce Verchere, PhD November 2018
... prohormones as biomarkers of islet graft function that may have value in predicting islet transplant failure.[ 5 ] ... this was avoided with the recruitment of Dr Tim Kieffer in 2002 and Dr Jim Johnson in 2004. These capable investigators ... for their part in supporting the publication of this theme issue. Competing interests This and the other articles in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP December 2015
... developed. Often dubbed “walk-in care,” such a system may address the issue of timely access but often fails to offer continuity of ... from the BC Ministry of Health. Data were collected for 2002 to 2013 from reports labelled 10864_oldformat_xxyyYE ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... HF mortality.[ 5 ] Serum b-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) may be helpful for prognostication as well, since BNP levels ... heart transplant (known as “bridge therapy”). In 2002, the US Food and Drug Administration also approved the ... revised version of the article published in the June 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:224-229). The authors corrected an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... in British Columbia was managed by Pharmacare. Since 2002, HOP has been the responsibility of the regional health ... of services in the Northern Health Authority. Home oxygen may be funded by extended health benefits, if available to ... of home oxygen remains a concern and continues to be an issue for some patients. For example, in Vancouver Coastal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margot Davis, MD, September 2010
... of the original cohort’s offspring, was enrolled, and in 2002 a third generation was enrolled.  In the nearly 5 ... by the Framingham algorithms.[ 16 ]  To address this issue, a number of other risk-prediction algorithms have been ... certain ethnic groups, the Framingham risk model may underserve women.  Studies have suggested that the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marc W. Deyell, MD, FRCPC, June 2010
... life-year saved by an ICD was estimated at US$66 677 in 2002.[ 16 ]  Based on these trials, the 2005 Canadian ... However, some individuals with better-tolerated VT may be amenable to antiarrhythmic therapy or to ablation ... presented in  Table 1 . ICDs for primary prevention The issue of which patients should receive an ICD for the primary ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Farsheed Hedayati-Vala, MD, July/August 2008
... are often required to perform these procedures.  The issue of how we define a “well-trained” family physician ... serves a population of 12 000 people. From September 2002 to December 2004 (2.5 years), 677 scopes were undertaken ... the scope from the cecum, and that using less time may result in a higher miss rate for small neoplasms. In ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... have a primary beneficial effect. The current guidelines (2002) from the American College of Cardiology/American Heart ... from COPD itself.[ 26 , 27 ]  Like CKD, part of this risk may be due to a commonality of risk factors, but after ... However, two studies from 2002 directly addressed this issue.  A large meta-analysis by Salpeter and colleagues ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pat G. Camp, MSc, PT, March 2008
... for BC and Canada is challenging, as the symptoms of COPD may not be present until airflow obstruction, a key feature ... match findings from other studies that have explored the issue of underdiagnosis. In the United States, data from the ... Similar results have been reported in British Columbia. In 2002–2003, only 37% of newly diagnosed COPD patients had ...