… Rebecca Afford 1 , Alexander KC Leung … Afford et al. … Ms Rebecca Afford and
Professor Alexander KC Leung are coauthors. All the authors contributed to drafting and …

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify disparities in care for surgical patients with
preexisting mental health diagnoses. Summary Background Data: Mental illness affects …

Background A total of 18%–30% of Canadians live in a rural area and are served by 8% of
the country’s general surgeons. The demographic characteristics of Canada’s population and …

Background: Rural general surgeons perform many procedures outside the conventional
scope of the specialty. Unique to British Columbia, the Rural Practice Subsidiary Agreement (…

A 73-year-old man presented to a dermatology clinic with a 10× 9 cm erosive plaque
covered with a thick adherent yellow-brown crust of the scalp (Figure 1). The mass had been …

Background: Recent international guidelines recommend treatment without antibiotics for
uncomplicated diverticulitis (UD). We assessed physicians’ current knowledge and practices …

Methods: A retrospective observational study was conducted from April to October 2021. We
calculated differences in surgical daycare (SDC) departure time before and after …

Innovations in telecommunications have reinvented the delivery of medical education, but
the change in medical curricula may be lagging behind the rapid expansion of the use of …

Chemotactic cytokines (chemokines) play an important role in the recruitment of lymphocytes
to tissue by regulating cellular adhesion and transendothelial migration. This study …

The application of technology‐based self‐service in service delivery has grown rapidly in
recent years, but our current understanding of customer retention and satisfaction in such …