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Clinical Articles / BY: H. Grant Stiver MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... and institutional outbreak control—Changing standards of practice (J/F 2000) 5. Administer influenza antivirals to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... however, amantadine prophylaxis has become the standard of practice in the control of influenza A outbreaks in BC. The ... and institutional outbreak control—Changing standards of practice ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amil Shah, MDCM, FRCPC, FACP May 2000
... documented. As a result, adjuvant therapy became routine practice for Stage III colon cancer patients. Other studies ... the first drug, 5FU, for colorectal cancer into clinical practice, new active drugs have been identified. Irinotecan, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Baxter June 2000
... significant opportunities and robust challenges for the practice of medicine. These will, to a large extent, stem ... A simple, dramatic indicator of the achievement of medical practice is the continual increase in the percentage of ... of deaths more than doubled. The achievement of medical practice has meant that death now most often comes with age ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... systems, within increasingly planned and managed practice settings. They will use sophisticated patient ... of health care, the formalization of multidisciplinary practice settings allowing patients one-stop-shopping for ... professionals, and the availability of sophisticated practice management techniques will work to strengthen the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd June 2000
... things to be, and how I fear they might be. Patterns of practice I predict that we will go through a phase in ... from the patients. Being a physician in this type of practice would be much like working in retail; overhead to a ... now. In this case, the primary care physicians may adopt a practice of “office calls,” delivering health promotion, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC June 2000
... astonishing advances in the scientific basis of medical practice that increased our ability to be of service to our ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD June 2000
... the actual integration of these tools into the medical practice environment has been less than stellar. More than ... say they believe that the net enhances their own access to practice-related information, only 12% actually refer ...  Telemedicine also has a great potential to impact the practice of medicine using the Internet as a low-cost ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T.F. Handley, MD June 2000
... In the field of licensure and regulation of medical practice, it is no longer good enough to deal with bad apples ... of the day. Closer monitoring of standards of education, practice performance, and maintenance of competence have ... not prepared to meet some of the challenges of clinical practice, especially in outlying communities. UBC’s program ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... gradually and superimposing telemedicine on existing practice and referral infrastructure will demonstrate the ...