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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 ... in the US. The IOM then published a follow-up report in 2001, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the ... indicators at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in October 2016. This was an exciting achievement, but it ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... Head Trauma, with the intent to build on their earlier 2001 Joint Statement on Shaken Baby Syndrome.[ 9,10 ] In ... This is a revised version of the article published in the October 2015 issue ( BCMJ  2015;57:331-335). The author corrected an ...
Letters / BY: Barry Munn, MD, December 2014
... An emerging medical and public health concern” in the October issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:386-390 ) raises many interesting ... consider the following hypothetical example. If, between 2001 and 2010, the number of motorcyclists on the road ...
Clinical Articles / BY: S.E. Lord, MD, April 2010
... are devastating. Canadian injury statistics from 1992 to 2001 reveal a yearly average of 416 fatalities and 14 252 ... February), and 33% occurred during the fall (September, October, November) ( Figure 1 ). Spatial epidemiology of ... of an in-depth evaluation of a complex public health issue. In future, data on socioeconomic risks can be used to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cynthia Fan, MD October 2005
... guidelines, [1-3]  but controversy continues. [4,5] In October 2002, the BC Ministry of Health Services, through the ... use in BC grew by 5.5% between the fiscal years ending in 2001 and 2002, declined by 0.6% over the course of the next ... controlled trials and meta-analyses examining this issue. [4-16]  The most recent attempt to answer the ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... STI screening with HIV antibody testing. Methods As of October 2002, the total number of family medicine ... areas of more than 100 000 residents (according to the 2001 Canadian census) were classified in this study as urban. ... to generalize from this sample, primarily because of the issue of self-selection. Physicians who are more involved in ...
Letters / BY: Erik T. Paterson, MD December 2003
... In the interview with you, published in the  BCMJ  of October 2003, (45[8]:376-381), you make some mention of rural ... physician input into system reform was the most important issue to rural physicians and indeed to all physicians. The ... negotiation of the Rural Subsidiary Agreement of 2001, and in conjunction with UBC, financial support has been ...
Letters / BY: Robert Grist, MD January/February 2002
... see [Dr Frinton’s] discussion and lead editorial in the October BCMJ on issues concerning hormone support for women with symptoms of menopause [ 2001;43(8):446]. Prevention of heart attack is a serious ... HERS study, ably reviewed by Dr Hammell in your October issue [2001;43(8):447], led to questions about the earlier ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) October 2002
... Dixon-Warren’s request, which appeared in the June 2002 issue [ BCMJ  2002;44(5):234], asking for feedback on the ... in this manner. Unfortunately I feel now, as I felt in October 2001 when it was published, that the brochure from Dr ...