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Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... to leave BC hospitals against medical advice in the years 2015 to 2018.[ 1 ] It must be noted that interpersonal racism ... people (see Finding 4 of the full report, p. 80). To 31 October 2020, First Nations died from overdoses at a 5.5 ... routine measurement of health system performance on this issue, serving to mask a problem that this review has ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
On 17 October 2018, Canada joined nine American states and Uruguay ... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because ... use disorder, DSM-5 304.3.  Date of first visit: January 2015 to October 2017. Inclusion criteria: Self-reported ...
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 ... Streamlining the cardiology referral process In 2015 the Vancouver Division of Family Practice approached the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... This is a revised version of the article published in the October 2015 issue ( BCMJ  2015;57:331-335). The author corrected an ...