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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 ...
News July/August 2014
... levels can dramatically affect learning and memory, and may play a role in the cognitive deficits associated with ... β-catenin Stabilization in Vivo,” is published in June 2014 issue of the  Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
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, ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Kobus de Jager, MBBS September 2014
... average citizen, and perhaps even the average physician, may view death with dignity, a good death, aid in dying, ... physician-assisted suicide as of the same species ( BCMJ  2014;56:6 ). But criminal law draws sharp distinctions ... terminate their life on request? Anyone debating this issue, be it for or against physician-assisted suicide, needs ...