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Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
... mental health concerns in students is vital.[ 13 ] The 2013 Canadian reference group data report for the American ... pit appointments. These 36 pit appointments were done in May 2014 and were deemed successful. Subsequently pit ... “Pit often helps me answer and move forward with an issue that I’m stuck on with a patient. Instead of waiting ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Christine E. Simmons, MD, MSc, FRCPC March 2018
... Vancouver Centre have been studied prospectively since 2013 using a clinical database of information on patient ... ] As further work is done to validate these outcomes we may move toward differential assessments of response based on ... additional chemotherapy is not the standard of care. The issue of what to do when pCR is not achieved has been the ...
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 ...
News July/August 2017
... Award for their collaborative work in handling the 2013 primary care crisis in Fort St. John. This group of ... Read more about North Peace Division’s work in the May issue of the  BCMJ  ( ...
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 ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Clayton Chmelik, December 2015
... As part of this process the claim owner or medical advisor may contact you to confirm the worker’s current symptoms, ... the WorkSafeBC article published in the January/February 2013 issue of the  BCMJ  (2013:55;17), available online at  ...
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 ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly  Saturday, 31 May 2014 • Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver This year’s ... report Following approval of the agenda and the 2013 AGM minutes, outgoing president Dr William Cunningham ... clarified that the increase came largely from a severance issue that occurred, not primarily from hiring new staff. Dr ...
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 ...