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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 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD October 2019
... enter or retrieve patient notes, an increase from 26% in 2007.[ 4 ] More recently, the role of artificial intelligence ... online retailers to identify additional products a shopper may be interested in based on their previous purchases.[ 6 ] ... representation of populations has been a long-standing issue in the academic community. For example, the Framingham ...
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 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD October 2018
... morbidity and mortality associated with activities that may cause harm. Harm reduction applied to substance use is a ... replaced the policy of needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs ... harm-reduction services. Physicians can help address the issue of marginalization by examining their own assumptions ...
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 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sophie Y. Wang, BSc, July/August 2014
... antimicrobial resistance demonstrates the severity of this issue and calls for concerted action among all government ... resource-constrained settings.[ 1 ] The use of carbapenems may also accelerate the development of carbapenem resistance, ... of  E. coli  to ciprofloxacin increased between 2007 and 2010 and is reported to be at 25.3% in 2012.[ 2 ] ...
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 ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2013
... taken on the attachment challenge. A study conducted in 2007–2008 by Victoria-based Hollander Analytical Services ... Practice Services Committee (GPSC) began work on this issue in 2010 and initially provided funding to three ... With the launch of the attachment initiative, any division may now ac­cess funding for attachment initiatives. Given ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Prabjit Barn, MSc, May 2012
... in the lowest level of a building, such as basements.  In 2007 Health Canada lowered the guideline for annual radon ... (100 Bq/m3).[ 2 ]  Although many homes in BC may have radon concentrations below the Health Ca­nada ... Physicians can champion this important public health issue by talking to their patients about the dangers of radon ...