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Clinical Articles / BY: Antonia Hyman, MSc April 2020
... and presented at various conferences, including the 2016 Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research and ... care and the different perspectives Indigenous patients may have on health and wellness. Shift the definition and ... like to acknowledge that the activities discussed in this issue of the BCMJ took place on the traditional unceded ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2020
... (COVID-19) is taking a devastating toll globally. As of May 2020, there have been 76 000 cases of COVID-19 ... an ongoing public health emergency was declared in April 2016 related to high rates of drug overdose deaths. In the ... making it difficult to determine implicated substances and issue meaningful community alerts. Overdose deaths increased ...
MDs To Be / BY: Rochelle Tonkin, MD October 2020
... by discrete red spots or generalized reddening, that may be accompanied by itching,” as well as “a local skin ... nonspecific skin eruption) at UHNBC between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2018. Information collected included ... rash is commonly recognized as a possible systemic issue. Also, prescribing trends identified in this study ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark A. Lau, PhD, R.Psych January/February 2019
... to high-quality mental health services remains a critical issue in Canada and a treatment gap exists.  Primary care is ... or without anxiety identified in a primary care setting may not obtain a referral to specialized mental health ... participants that impeded continuing with the program. (In 2016 more workbooks for the core anxiety module were ...
MDs To Be / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD October 2019
... collect, communicate, and store medical data.[ 3 ] In 2016, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) reported that ... online retailers to identify additional products a shopper may be interested in based on their previous purchases.[ 6 ] ... representation of populations has been a long-standing issue in the academic community. For example, the Framingham ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
... pit appointments. These 36 pit appointments were done in May 2014 and were deemed successful. Subsequently pit ... Board, data collection began and continued until December 2016. Establishing wait times Wait times were calculated for ... “Pit often helps me answer and move forward with an issue that I’m stuck on with a patient. Instead of waiting ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD October 2018
... morbidity and mortality associated with activities that may cause harm. Harm reduction applied to substance use is a ... replaced the policy of needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs declined from ... harm-reduction services. Physicians can help address the issue of marginalization by examining their own assumptions ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Fahra Rajabali, MSc September 2018
... care system, and society at large. This public health issue directly affects the practice of physicians who must ... social marketing campaign.[ 16 ] One program that may have contributed to the decrease in self-harm costs from ... the public health emergency declared in BC in April 2016,[ 21 ] many programs were developed to prevent drug ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC January/February 2018
... with screening of RR 0.80 to 0.82.[ 6-8 ] These studies may, however, underestimate the current effectiveness of ... clinically apparent before the patient’s death. The issue then is one of results that precipitate overtreatment. ... has been the focus of much recent discussion. As of early 2016, 24 American states have enacted legislation that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Constantin Shuster, MD June 2018
... annually.[ 4 ] Unfortunately, British Columbia’s 2016 risk-adjusted 30-day readmission rate of 9.7% was ... risks for morbidity and mortality. Patient dissatisfaction may arise from the perception that the readmission was ... a concerted effort should be made to address this issue with the help of those working at all levels of the ...