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Clinical Articles / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... a long history of providing surgical care in rural BC. In 2007, the enhanced surgical skills and obstetrical surgical ... surgical skills in Canada as of July 2022, although this may underestimate the total family physician surgical ... affected by this inequitable access. Addressing this issue must be prioritized in the effort to decolonize health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andy Jiang, BSc December 2018
... unstudied even though these are undoubtedly also an issue. Since a greater understanding of all-cause poisoning ... results that indicate the risk of unintentional poisonings may be intrinsically linked to a particular developmental ... due to opioids have increased 53% nationwide from 2007/08 to 2016/17,[ 17 ] suggesting that the pattern found ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeanine C. Marshall, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... health care. The authority to act under Section 59 may continue until the circumstances that resulted in the ... require psychiatric care and ongoing monitoring. When the issue is primarily a social one that does not require the ... being passed by the BC legislature in 1993 and amended in 2007. This leaves six ways that a person can be transferred ...
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 ... of a single spike in the use of outside physicians in 2007–2008 ( Figure 2 ).  Data for services by assigned ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... of services in the Northern Health Authority. Home oxygen may be funded by extended health benefits, if available to ... 1 minute. In accordance with the criteria in effect since 2007, outpatient testing requires an exercise ox­imetry ... of home oxygen remains a concern and continues to be an issue for some patients. For example, in Vancouver Coastal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alison Granger-Brown, MA, December 2012
... and increase motivation for change—something that may be sustained after release from prison. Women in BC’s ... for Aboriginal women By Lara-Lisa Condello   From May 2007 to May 2010, over 100 women in prison participated in ... 25 ]  Infant safety has not been reported as an issue in numerous countries where prison infant and mother ...
Clinical Articles / BY: S.E. Lord, MD, April 2010
... every day. Further reductions in the incidence of PT may depend on more sophisticated insights into the ... of an in-depth evaluation of a complex public health issue. In future, data on socioeconomic risks can be used to ... Trauma Association of Canada annual meeting in Ottawa in 2007. The authors are indebted to the British Columbia Trauma ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, December 2009
... breast screening program.[ 10 ] Methods In November 2007, surveys were mail­ed to 5140 family physicians in ... women The perception that mammography is painful was the issue most often mentioned by patients (24%) in response to a ... we did not survey gynecologists or other specialists who may recommend mammography more or less than family ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan A. Hoag, BSc, October 2008
... cancer), with an estimated 22300 cases and 4300 deaths in 2007. Approximately one in eight men will eventually develop ... future prostate cancer screening directions, though it may be several years before results are published and ... do cover the PSA test for screening ( Table 2 ).[ 21 ] The issue of PSA testing coverage by MSP has been a topic of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... 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 ... and modification. Recognizing the problem As of 1 July 2007 the population of British Columbia was estimated to be ...