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Clinical Articles / BY: Elisabeth Baerg Hall, MD, CCFP, FRCPC November 2023
... guidelines have been made to take into account a family practice–targeted adult population. Severe mental health ... teach them to monitor progress over time. In the family practice setting, ADHD is managed as a chronic condition. In ... physicians diagnose many chronic conditions in their daily practice, and they are well positioned to diagnose and treat ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer E. Nuk, MSc, CGC, CCGC July/August 2023
... general population for screening. However, some clinical practice guidelines have made specific recommendations. For ...
Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... breast ultrasound was covered, an audit of a Vancouver practice showed that 7 cancers were detected per 1000 ... practising breast radiologist in Vancouver and works in a practice that offers screening and diagnostic breast imaging ...
Premise / BY: Daniel Hong, PharmD, BCGP December 2023
... as the standard of care by evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Although the total body of evidence ... of VTE with anticoagulants than with ASA, it is common practice for patients with orthopaedic fractures undergoing ... have the potential to significantly influence clinical practice and guidelines, careful and selective application of ...
Premise / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC September 2023
... 18 , 19 ] Family physician–led teams could provide practice-generated salaried positions for nurses, physician ... model of as little as $48. It is a return to the family practice equivalent incomes of the 1970s[ 2 ] [ Table 1 ], ... record keeping. The current platforms have made the practice of medicine less efficient, possibly contributing to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anton R. Miller, MBChB, FRCPC June 2023
... innovations for this kind of service to be office or practice based, such as employing “teamlets” for chronic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elizabeth Burden, MD January/February 2023
... by clinicians of all disciplines to their full scope of practice; for patients with heart failure, that includes the ... a cardiologist and a family physician with a focused practice in palliative medicine. The objectives were to ... aligns with current recommendations from the most recent practice guidelines from the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, ...
Premise / BY: R. Eric Demers, BSc, CCPA, CD September 2023
... BC’s and Manitoba’s performance in using advanced practice providers in health care teams because of their ... are included in the tables to provide context. Advanced practice providers Advanced practice providers are health professionals who undertake ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Ng, MD, CCFP June 2023
... interpretation calls made from all divisions of family practice in BC from November 2017 to December 2020. For each ... proficiency prevalence in the 10 divisions of family practice with the highest usage, as well as to estimate ... 15 ] Regional patterns The Vancouver Division of Family Practice accounted for 85.5% (n = 20 068) of the calls made ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brendan Tao, BHSc March 2023
... of Schizophrenia in Adults,” and “Canadian Practice Guidelines for Comprehensive Community Treatment for ...