 British Columbia
"British Columbia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A province of Canada on the Pacific coast. Its capital is Victoria. The name given in 1858 derives from the Columbia River which was named by the American captain Robert Gray for his ship Columbia which in turn was named for Columbus. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p178 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p81-2)
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D001955
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Z01.107.567.176.160
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2024 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "British Columbia" by people in Profiles.
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Staples JA, Hu X, Khan M, Daly-Grafstein D, Naik H, Kaasa BM, Brubacher JR, Nasmith T, Lyden JR, Moe J, Crabtree A, Slaunwhite A. "Before medically advised" hospital discharge and the risk of subsequent drug overdose: A case-crossover analysis. J Hosp Med. 2025 Feb; 20(2):146-154.
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Russell JN, Lee MK, Uyaguari-Diaz MI, Sies AN, Suchan DM, Hsiao W, Fraser E, Morshed MG, Cameron ADS. Whole-genome sequencing of Western Canadian Borrelia spp. collected from diverse tick and animal hosts reveals short-lived local genotypes interspersed with longer-lived continental genotypes. Microb Genom. 2024 Aug; 10(8).
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Khan M, Yu Y, Daly-Grafstein D, Naik H, Sutherland JM, Tran KC, Nasmith T, Lyden JR, Staples JA. Patient-Physician Sex Discordance and "Before Medically Advised" Discharge from Hospital: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Nov; 39(14):2638-2648.
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Catherine NLA, MacMillan H, Cullen A, Zheng Y, Xie H, Boyle M, Sheehan D, Lever R, Jack SM, Gonzalez A, Gafni A, Tonmyr L, Barr R, Marcellus L, Varcoe C, Waddell C. Effectiveness of nurse-home visiting in improving child and maternal outcomes prenatally to age two years: a randomised controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project). J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2024 05; 65(5):644-655.
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Marcellus L, Tonmyr L, Jack SM, Gonzalez A, Sheenan D, Varcoe C, Kurtz Landy C, Campbell K, Catherine N, MacMillan H, Waddell C. Public health nurses' perceptions of their interactions with child protection services when supporting socioeconomically disadvantaged young mothers in British Columbia, Canada. Child Abuse Negl. 2022 02; 124:105426.
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Nguyen NA, Eskelson BNI, Meitner MJ, Murray T. People's Knowledge and Risk Perceptions of Invasive Plants in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Environ Manage. 2020 12; 66(6):985-996.
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Catherine NLA, Boyle M, Zheng Y, McCandless L, Xie H, Lever R, Sheehan D, Gonzalez A, Jack SM, Gafni A, Tonmyr L, Marcellus L, Varcoe C, Cullen A, Hjertaas K, Riebe C, Rikert N, Sunthoram A, Barr R, MacMillan H, Waddell C. Nurse home visiting and prenatal substance use in a socioeconomically disadvantaged population in British Columbia: analysis of prenatal secondary outcomes in an ongoing randomized controlled trial. CMAJ Open. 2020 Oct-Dec; 8(4):E667-E675.
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Min JE, Pearce LA, Homayra F, Dale LM, Barocas JA, Irvine MA, Slaunwhite AK, McGowan G, Torban M, Nosyk B. Estimates of opioid use disorder prevalence from a regression-based multi-sample stratified capture-recapture analysis. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 12 01; 217:108337.
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Campbell KA, Van Borek N, Marcellus L, Landy CK, Jack SM. "The hardest job you will ever love": Nurse recruitment, retention, and turnover in the Nurse-Family Partnership program in British Columbia, Canada. PLoS One. 2020; 15(9):e0237028.
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Catherine NLA, Lever R, Marcellus L, Tallon C, Sheehan D, MacMillan H, Gonzalez A, Jack SM, Waddell C. Retaining participants in community-based health research: a case example on standardized planning and reporting. Trials. 2020 May 11; 21(1):393.
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