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Clinical Articles / BY: Courtney Young, MBA, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... attention was focused on how QI could favorably affect the issue of medical errors. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) was ... often navigate multiple care interfaces and consequently may experience fragmented care and poor outcomes.[ 5 ] This ... November 2016. www.waittimealliance.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CCS-Building-a-Heart-Healthy-Canada.pdf . Institute ...
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.  ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ben Chan, BSc, January/February 2016
... numerous avenues to introduce great change. Some changes may be for the better (such as Dr Semmelweis’s pioneering ... support your work, even if they are passionate about the issue. The goal should also be specific enough for you to be ... numerous businesses and prominent individuals. In 2014 Dr Rai received the Governor General’s Caring Canadian ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... all the generalist pieces of being a family doctor my dad may not have had an opportunity that day to receive the best ... the health care needs of our populations. What health care issue do you think is not getting enough attention right now? ... First, the Commonwealth Fund released a report in late 2014 showing that Canada scores 10th out of 11 in First World ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
... in health care today. We need not look further than the 2014 comparative scorecard from the Commonwealth Fund ... like to bring to the Board this year is temperance. This may help us be more efficient with our work.” . . . “To ... is not a productive use of our time and energy. The issue is that our two work models simply clash. Doctors are ...
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 ... is a revised version of the article published in the June 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:224-229). The authors corrected an ...
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 ...
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