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Clinical Articles / BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP November 2018
... for discussion of specific therapeutic areas. Since 2010, 18 drugs or classes of drugs have been reviewed in ... these concerns, the Therapeutics Letter of September/October 2017 names canagliflozin and dapagliflozin as ... for their part in supporting the publication of this theme issue. Competing interests This and the other articles in the ...
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 ... indicators at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in October 2016. This was an exciting achievement, but it ... improved relationships between FPs and specialists.   In 2010, a partnership was formed between PHC and the Shared ...
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 ... the following hypothetical example. If, between 2001 and 2010, the number of motorcyclists on the road between the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Zamil Karim, MD, FRCPC, October 2013
... chart review was conducted from 1 September to 31 October 2010 at two teaching hospitals in Vancouver, BC. This quality ... prednisone prescribed might have been excessive.  On the issue of informed consent, the judge believed that a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... Act to target impaired driving.15 Introduced in September 2010, these amendments give police the authority to impose ... annually in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes. From 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011, there were 68 ... of the immediate roadside prohibition program.  At issue was whether the immediate roadside prohibition program ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... outcome of a simple medical practice audit conducted in 2010 illustrates how such an approach might affect personal ... for two similar time periods in 2010: for 1 September to 1 October 51% of viral isolates were possibly rhinoviruses and ... 19 ] provides a structure for assessment:  I. Question or issue created; assess resources. II. Acquire information and ...
Letters / BY: R.M. Preshaw, MD March 2011
... trained nurses” [Colorectal cancer screening,  BCMJ 2010;52:499-500 ]. She also states that BC is “currently ... blood test in colorectal cancer screening,[ 1 ] but I take issue here with the implication that screening for colorectal ... PEI, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, or the Yukon. On 4 October 2010, British prime minister David Cameron announced ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marc W. Deyell, MD, FRCPC, June 2010
... Michel Mirowski Mieczyslaw (Michel) Mirowski was born 14 October 1924 in Warsaw, Poland.[ 4 ] The story of his early ... he drew to the problem of SCD as a whole. ICDs in 2010 Unlike the early prototypes, modern devices are much ... presented in  Table 1 . ICDs for primary prevention The issue of which patients should receive an ICD for the primary ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, December 2009
... the summer months and 70 to 80 per month in September and October, and is projected to be well over 100 per month ... see  www.pito.bc.ca/specialists  and refer to previous issue of the BCMJ.[ 2 , 3 ] Private Physician Network In ... and standardize their services. Strategic priorities for 2010 In addition to continued rollout, PITO will focus on ...
News July/August 2007
... Enrollment under the Core-Plus Plan from 1 September to 31 October. Stay tuned—more details about the Open Enrollment will be coming your way in the September issue of the  BCMJ. —Sandie Braid, CEBS Assistant ... designated community. The application deadline is 31 March 2010 or until all available funding has been ...