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Clinical Articles / BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP November 2018
... with predicted prevalence rates rising from 8.3% in 2013 to 10.3% in 2020.[ 1 ] The complications of diabetes ... other antihyperglycemic agents can confuse physicians and may result in widely variable quality of care as well as ... for their part in supporting the publication of this theme issue. Competing interests This and the other articles in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Fahra Rajabali, MSc September 2018
... care system, and society at large. This public health issue directly affects the practice of physicians who must ... disability-adjusted life years were then translated into 2013 dollars using the gross national income per capita. [ 6 ... social marketing campaign.[ 16 ] One program that may have contributed to the decrease in self-harm costs from ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ivana Jakovljevic, MD October 2016
... having at least one parent who works full time. As of 2013, one-half of children in lone parent families were ... on their patients but report feeling unable to address the issue in a systematic way.[ 22 ] The poverty intervention ... BC Ministry of Children and Family Development that they may be eligible for coverage of medically necessary ...
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 ... the BC Ministry of Health. Data were collected for 2002 to 2013 from reports labelled 10864_oldformat_xxyyYE (with the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... by e-mail with C. Voggenreiter, Ministry of Health, March 2013). Several explanations for this high number have been ... damaging relationships with specialists, this reluctance may be due to lack of confidence in their own deprescribing ... or the challenge of family unavailability. Thus the issue goes far deeper than this financial aspect. A ...
Letters / BY: William Gardner, MBChB, April 2014
... I was heartened to see that the January/February 2014 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  had four items on the ... issues. The core problem is a moral one. Though we may disagree with our patients’ moral values, in most cases ... of the one versus the group. Dr Allan Donkin ( BCMJ  2013;56:6 ) identified the inherent difficulties in resolving ...
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 ... for diagnostic imaging that would be in place by April 2013. (required) •    The medical community would ... the profession, many of which we have discussed here. The issue of currency has been an especially hot topic for ...
Letters / BY: Geraldine Vance, APR, July/August 2013
... by the rather dismissive tone of Dr Richardson’s May 2013 editorial regarding the clinical services proposals made ... and so the more they do the more money is saved. On the issue of the clinical services we believe should be adopted ...
Letters / BY: Barend Grobbelaar, MD, October 2013
... harder.” [ “A GP for Me”: Will it work?  BCMJ  2013;55:133 .] This quote does get to the nub of the issue of delivering quality primary care to all the citizens ... With the exception of the new telephone codes, which may increase efficiency, the majority of new fees pay us to ...
Letters / BY: Judith Hammond, July/August 2013
... diets: Facts for patients on this food fad,”  BCMJ  2013;55:161 ].[ 1 ] Although I do not doubt that faddism ... 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 ...