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Premise / BY: Martin C. Wale, BM BS, FRCPath, MBA March 2017
... implementing the recommendations from the Cochrane Report (2011) was carried out by the Physician Specialist Services ... supports (training, simulation experience, etc.) may be required to maintain currency in the context of service requirements. Where collection of data is an issue, this should be raised in that conversation.  ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel J. Lithwick, MHA, April 2016
... records were investigated over a 26-year period (1986 to 2011) to determine the incidence and causes of SCD in high ... screening without an ECG. Finally, potential differences may have existed within the study populations: the athletes ... (0.9%).[ 13 ] High false-positive rates have also been an issue in screening with history and physical examination. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP December 2015
... increase in the population catchment area from 2006 to 2011.[ 4 ] The move by full-service family physicians to ... developed. Often dubbed “walk-in care,” such a system may address the issue of timely access but often fails to offer continuity of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... their activities appropriately, and some physicians may be pressured by colleagues to practise outside their area ... moving to a system of criteria-based privileging. Since 2011 the provincial Privileging Standards Project has been ... the profession, many of which we have discussed here. The issue of currency has been an especially hot topic for ...
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 ... Clinic was introduced at St. Paul’s Hospital in January 2011, and later at Vancouver General Hospital. The objective ... revised version of the article published in the June 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:224-229). The authors corrected an ...
Letters / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC May 2013
... the BCMA’s pledge to support its members who are now, or may in the fu­ture become, clinical faculty teachers/mentors ... LOI was at the Section of Clinical Faculty AGM on 5 May 2011 when the BCMA president announced that it was to be ... wording in the LOI calls into question.  I take no issue with those involved in the system, only with the system ...
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 ... privately if they still want oxygen therapy. Costs For the 2011–2012 fiscal year, British Columbia health authorities ... of home oxygen remains a concern and continues to be an issue for some patients. For example, in Vancouver Coastal ...
News July/August 2013
... body in 15 minutes. This homegrown innovation won the 2011 “Best of What’s New” award from Popular Science, a ... for in vivo skin cancer diagnosis,” published in the May 2012 issue of Cancer Re­search. The article can be viewed at ...
Letters / BY: Judith Hammond, July/August 2013
... as one of three gluten-induced conditions.[ 2 ] A small 2011 study recruited 34 patients who self-identified as ... with our patients—there are some aspects of the issue that we understand well, some that are controversial ... mind when communicating with patients: what is dogma today may be called into question by new evidence tomorrow. If all ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper January/February 2012
... strategist, and policy advisor to the BCMA in November 2011. BCMJ managing editor Jay Drap­er spoke to him in ... for in those circumstances where it is a direct one-on-one issue or conflict. And yet now that I’m here, I see so many ... final thoughts? Members who aren’t involved in the BCMA may wonder what goes on here, and they can be assured that ...