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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 ... Streamlining the cardiology referral process In 2015 the Vancouver Division of Family Practice approached the ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS April 2017
In Part 1 of this two-part theme issue we discussed the value of comprehensive geriatric ... the complexity of a patient’s clinical presentation, may not apply when dealing with the four Ds. Examples of ... actual drug-drug interactions in older people is vast. In 2015, the American Geriatrics Society published the updated ...
Clinical Articles / BY: W.D. Robertson, MB, BChir, FRCPC July/August 2017
Background On 6 February 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in  Carter v. Canada ... of quality assurance. Vancouver Island implementation In May 2016, the Vancouver Island Health Authority (Island ... to the drugs required for assisted death has not been an issue. Prescribers and pharmacists have worked closely to ...