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Clinical Articles / BY: Nicola Y. Edwards, MHA January/February 2023
... the opioid crisis and provide effective intervention. Many people who die of opioid overdose have recently interacted ... an opportunity for intervention. In one analysis, 77% of people had contact with the health care system in the year ... ( P = .0006). Discussion Our results indicate that people who present with an opioid overdose have frequently ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Ng, MD, CCFP June 2023
... Service Pilot Project and compares this with the number of people in BC who described each language as their only mother ... 3.6% (n = 838). For all of BC, the number of calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency was 15.1. Vancouver had 46.9 calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency, followed by Nanaimo ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Eugene Y.H. Yeung, MD, MSc, BSc(Pharm), FCCM, FRCPC November 2023
Between 2009 and 2020, 20 546 people in Canada were reported to have tuberculosis.[ 1 ] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stephen Lam, MD, FRCPC April 2023
... worldwide.[ 1 ] In British Columbia, an average of seven people die of lung cancer every day; in Canada, more people die from lung cancer than from breast, colon, and ... annual low-dose computed tomography screening in people 55 to 74 years of age who currently smoked or had quit ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia M. Massel, MD June 2023
... and additive fears . . . are pretty distressing for people.” Recommendations Health care providers need ... provided by the BC SUPPORT (British Columbia Support for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials) Unit. This ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elisabeth Baerg Hall, MD, CCFP, FRCPC November 2023
... referral is recommended. The prevalence of ADHD in people with bipolar disorder can be more than 20%.[ 21 ] ... uncomplicated ADHD in their adult patients.[ 29 ] Summary People with ADHD have unique strengths, such as increased ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hannah Gibson, MBChB May 2023
... were recorded among those experiencing homelessness.[ 5 ] People who are homeless also experience low levels of ... 11 ] and showed that overall health care expenditures for people who had been homeless were significantly lower after ... supportive housing as “an effective intervention for people with complex health and social needs . . . ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP May 2023
... when clinically advantageous. Children, older adults, and people with disabilities may not have the inspiratory flows ...
Clinical Articles / BY: barbara findlay, MA, LLB, QC March 2022
... the privacy of the care provider, the patient, and other people adjacent to the main players. In a recent complaint ... College of Psychologists be allowed to redact the names of people who had written unsolicited letters of support for the ... of medical care. Research has shown that transgender people avoid seeking medical care because they are not ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maggie Wong, PharmD, ACPR June 2022
... effort, antimicrobial resistance is predicted to kill more people than cancer by the year 2050.[ 1 ] The human cost is ...