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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 ...
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  ...
Editorials / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC September 2015
Dr Margaret Colbourne Following the 2014 release of “Lost in the Shadows” from the ... physicians of their legal obligation to report a child who may be in need of protection, as well as guiding them through ... of these children. This is the first of a two-part theme issue on child maltreatment. The first article is a brief ...
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, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Karen Rideout, PhD, January/February 2014
... version of the article published in the January/February 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:29,46). The BC Centre for Disease ... enough to eat. Even people depending on soup kitchens may get enough food, but the food they receive is often of ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD June 2013
... this editorial is about you, the physician, who on 1 April 2014 will be handed the spoils of the failed Health Canada ... only for medical marijuana! Some physicians may see a Seagram-like business opportunity[ 5 ] in the ... authorization and dispensing of medical marijuana. The issue of how physicians will be audited for authorizing a ...