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Clinical Articles /
BY: Roey M. Malleson, MBBS, DFFP, MHSC
January/February 2002
... be any significant reduction in efficacy, and though this practice still needs confirmation, it does allow for some ... induction of liver enzymes (e.g., rifampicin), the usual practice is to double the dose of ECP. However, it is not ... patients (e.g., medical office assistants, receptionists, practice nurses, answering services) should be aware of the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Fikre Germa, MD, CCFP(EM)
January/February 2002
... aboriginal female presented to a physician in rural practice with back pain that had become progressively worse ... Diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB Physicians in family practice clinics and emergency departments should always ... review of the manuscript. Two cases in a rural BC family practice demonstrate the challenge of diagnosing ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Shubhayan Sanatani, MD, FRCPC
March 2002
... an area where the gap between basic science and clinical practice is narrowing. This will undoubtedly help us to ...
Letters /
BY: D.H. Blackman, MD
March 2002
... & Surgeons developed the Committee on Office Medical Practice Assessment under its mandate to “establish, monitor, and enforce standards of practice to enhance the quality of practice…amongst members.” This program was developed ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Andrew R. Woolfenden, MD, FRCPC
April 2002
... of anticoagulation has been demonstrated in clinical practice. [ 36,37] Anticoagulation clinics improve INR ... Table 3 . Underutilization of anticoagulation in clinical practice Despite the results of many randomized trials that ... remains a significant underuse of warfarin in clinical practice. In one American hospital-based study, 56% of AF ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Patricia Clugston, MD, FRCSC, FACS
April 2002
... benefits of breast reconstruction, the Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Breast ... on a delayed or immediate basis. Only 8% stated their practice was to refer to a plastic surgeon at the same time ... information about breast reconstruction in the Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Breast ...
Letters
April 2002
... contraception is a primitive, violent, and medieval practice, and was allowed to be on the cover of our journal. ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP
May 2002
... increased likelihood of a physician leaving his or her practice [9-11] and increased likelihood of becoming ... to rate the statement, “How satisfied are you with your practice.” In the January 1997 and October 1998 surveys, ... asked “Within the next year, do you intend to move your practice?” The questions are sufficiently different that ...
Letters /
BY: Ron De Marchi, MD
May 2002
... it was our new graduates who were choosing the WIC-type practice, but now we are seeing our previously established ... traditionalists jump ship toward the WIC method of practice as they slowly desert many of the roles of the ... increased by 11.5%, others will move toward the WIC type practice, as a comfortable living can be made on that billing ...