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Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP December 2022
... article on this topic originally appeared in the November 2014 issue of the BCMJ . As this subject continues to pose a ... Committee decided to revisit the topic. While physicians may view documentation of services as time-consuming, it is ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Drona Rasali, PhD, FACE May 2020
... and the health care resources required to manage it may be much greater than the sum of single diseases.[ 2 , 3 ] ... increasingly becoming a key public health and primary care issue in the prevention and management of chronic diseases.[ ... BC residents 20 years or older had multimorbidity (2+) in 2014/15.[ 2 ] Another Canadian study using data for five ...
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 ... orthopaedic clinic had had weight-bearing films. Another 2014 British study found 98% of nontraumatic knee radiographs ...
Premise / BY: Martin C. Wale, BM BS, FRCPath, MBA March 2017
... by the Physician Specialist Services Advisory Committee in 2014. Following this, further work on the Cochrane ... 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.  ...
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, ... treatment recommendations for nonsurgical conditions. In 2014 the VSC’s 41 specialists provided more than 8000 ... WorkSafeBC article published in the January/February 2013 issue of the  BCMJ  (2013:55;17), available online at  ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD March 2015
... project seeking literary works described in the September 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:349 ) is meant to honor existing ... meantime, an information seeker visiting abcbookworld.com may search for the key words “physician author” to find ...
Premise / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, September 2014
... Iglesias, Johnston, Klein, Ruddiman, and Woollard [ BCMJ  2014;56:326-327 ] with some concern. We accept that change ... for this to occur and for discussions on how comfort may be maintained or restored. Second, we must not confuse ... for the practising physician. We are interested in this issue, but it is beyond the scope of our project. Other ...
News October 2014
The quality of health care that people receive may be as important as controlling the risk factors--smoking, ... and High-Income Countries," is published in the 28 August 2014 issue of the  New England Journal of Medicine  and is ...
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 ... is available at  www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/amr-report/en . To evaluate the scope of the issue, ... resource-constrained settings.[ 1 ] The use of carbapenems may also accelerate the development of carbapenem resistance, ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS November 2014
... bulge comes face to face with advancing age. In this issue of the  BCMJ , Dr Bob Vroom also addresses the topic ... College registrants who subscribe to library services may receive an unlimited number of expert literature ... and protecting your earnings” ( J Orthop Trauma  2014;28(7S):S50-58), “We need to get another life after ...