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Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... is the most dramatic infectious organism affecting elderly people. About 90% of the more than 1200 deaths each year in ... protection The best method of protecting institutionalized people against influenza is yearly resident and staff ... to March.[ 6 ] In BC, immunization of institutionalized people should typically begin 1 November, while staff, whose ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leila Srour, MD January/February 2000
... viruses cause acute respiratory infection and can affect people of any age. The elderly, the very young, and the ... 4 ] In BC, influenza vaccine is provided free of charge to people aged 65 years and older, the institutionalized, the ...
Editorials / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... work days lost and 50,000 hospitalizations. More than 1200 people in BC die each year from pneumonia and influenza--a ... occur in the elderly, yet fewer than half of elderly people avail themselves of a free vaccine that is up to 80% ... of 1918-19. This pandemic killed 40 million to 50 million people worldwide; the often-quoted figure of 20 million ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gordean Bjornson, MBA March 2000
... function cannot meet the demands of normal activities. People with immune system impairment from chronic illness or ... looming, one of the best preparations is to ensure that people at greatest risk from infection are participating in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Iain G.M. Cleator, MB, CHB, FRCSC, FRCSE, FRCS, FACS April 2000
... to be acceptable for widespread screening in asymptomatic people. Kronborg et al.[ 4 ] demonstrated an 18% mortality ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Baxter June 2000
... practice is the continual increase in the percentage of people who live to reach “old age”: over the past ... groups has been dramatic. There were 8329 fewer deaths of people under the age of 65 in Canada in 1998 than there were ... the population gets older since, effectively, 2 older people contribute 1.6 younger people to the population. Below ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... bites from rabid dogs. Each year, approximately 4 million people require rabies post-exposure prophylaxis.[ 1,2 ]  The ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd June 2000
... favored by society in the next 100 years. I believe that people will continue to seek the advice of allopathic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... communication technologies have transformed the ways people correspond and exchange ideas with each other, ...
Editorials / BY: Ralph Klein, MLA, Premier of Alberta June 2000
... Association for a century of dedicated service to the people of your province. In BC, in my home province of ... health system and is working hard to ensure it serves people as well in the new century as it did in the previous ... at ways to make the system better—to help it serve people better. We believe that the foundation of the ...