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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 ...
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, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2000
... rates increase sharply in communities with fewer than 7000 people. A recent decrease in absolute numbers of rural ... Columbia—too few physicians serving relatively too many people. Inability to attract physicians to rural communities ... consists of communities that had less than 30000 people, at least one physician, and have either a hospital or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terry Curran, MD, FRCP October 2000
... the reins, the next option is the stockbroker. To many people’s surprise, the stockbroker is one of the most ...