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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP October 2023
... varies significantly based on different methodologies and may not fully capture the nature of anxiety in older people, ... social prescribing alone is insufficient to address this issue. Creating genuine social connections in the community ... for general practitioners” ( www.racgp.org.au/afp/2012/september/acceptance-and-commitment-therapy ) ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... and identified what they viewed as the most significant issue with existing studies supporting ultrasound: the ... from 99% to 100% respectively. Also of note, in their 2012 study, Lee and colleagues diagnosed 64 chondral rib ... physicians at initial presentation of minor blunt trauma may in fact speed up rib fracture diagnosis by helping triage ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... sales increased by 33% in the last year and by 700% since 2012.[ 8 ] This makes the US cannabis market larger than that ... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because one “daily user” may smoke all day, every day, and another “daily user” ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD July/August 2019
... concern (CECs) in transplanted mussels collected in 2012/2013 from locations near urbanized areas around Puget ... of opioids, the Washington study illustrates the larger issue of CECs in the environment and their potential adverse ... impacts. CECs of greatest concern include those which may not pose an immediate effect through acute exposure, as ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Derek Smith, MD, FRCSC September 2018
... with possible surgical pathology, such as osteoarthritis, may be referred to an orthopaedic surgeon, who often repeats ... the importance of obtaining weight-bearing X-rays. But the issue is hardly limited to Canada. A 2012 British study found no patients with knee issues ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tania Morrison, MHSc, RD June 2017
... going without food.[ 1 ] Research shows that families may use strategies such as delaying payments for bills or ... impact food insecurity as they cannot address the issue of poverty.[ 4,6,7 ] Physicians can support their ... Food insecurity rose significantly in BC between 2005 and 2012,[ 9 ] and to prevent it from increasing further, action ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD July/August 2015
... an opportunity to identify potential billing issues that may require correction. When any statistic on your profile is ... the information provided in your Mini-Profile, read the 2012 Mini Profile – Explanatory Notes document at  ... your Mini-Profile and consider if there may be a potential issue with your flagged measures that could be avoided. ...
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, ... between 2007 and 2010 and is reported to be at 25.3% in 2012.[ 2 ] The proportion of  S. pneumoniae  nonsusceptible ...
News July/August 2013
... for in vivo skin cancer diagnosis,” published in the May 2012 issue of Cancer Re­search. The article can be viewed at ...
News October 2013
... Report was distributed to members as an enclosure with the May issue of the BCMJ. This year’s annual report had a new look ... report, readers were most interested in the highlights of 2012, the financial reports, and the report of the ...