Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Outpatient Antibiotic Use for Clostridioides difficile-Indicated Agents in British Columbia, from 2000 to 2018 by Ariana Saatchi, Sungeun Kim, Fawziah Marra

“…A provincial stewardship program has operated in British Columbia (BC), since 2005. Since the program's inception, surveillance of antibiotic use has been ongoing. …”
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Pediatric RSV Infection During Two Winter Seasons in British Columbia: A Role for Subgroup Analysis in Young Children? by E Wilson, C Orvell, B Morrison, E Thomas

“…Using a panel of eight monoclonal antibodies directed against the G, F and NP proteins of respiratory syncytial virus, 167 virus isolates from nasopharyngeal washing cultures at British Columbia Children’s Hospital during two consecutive epidemics were subgrouped. …”
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A mixed methods protocol to investigate medication adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis of White British and South Asian origin by Karim Raza, Peter Nightingale, Karen Shaw, Rob Horne, Kanta Kumar, Sheila Greenfield, Paramjit Gill

“…This study aims to assess the relationship between adherence to medicines and biopsychosocial variables in patients with rheumatoid arthritis of South Asian and White British origin.Methods/analysis A mixed methods approach will be used, encompassing a cross-sectional survey of 176 patients collecting demographic and clinical data, including information on adherence behaviour collected using a series of questionnaires. …”
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Le concept de « Britishness » dans les emblèmes de Henry Peacham (1612) : vers une reconquête identitaire ? by Julie Corre

“…Peacham then scrutinizes the parallel construction of a British identity and a British nation, underlining the prime importance of the Union project between England and Scotland in the early 17th century. …”
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Geographic Differences in Availability and Access to Care Services for Asthma and COPD: Case Study of Vancouver Coastal Health, British Columbia by Amelia Choy, Erin M. Shellington, Aneisha Collins-Fairclough, Nardia Strydom, Chris Carlsten

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Usefulness of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis in Tracking Two Outbreaks of Invasive Meningococcal Disease Serogroup C in British Columbia by Grahame Quan, Mark Gilbert, Samara T David, Tazim Rahim, Kathy Adie, Carol Shaw, Alan McNabb, Judy Isaac-Renton, David M Patrick

“…PFGE patterns of IMD-C genotypes correlated with epidemiological patterns between 2000 and 2004 in British Columbia, and demonstrated that PFGE can identify outbreak-related cases. …”
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A Lost Chance: the British-Franco-Soviet Talks in the Summer of 1939 and the Soviet-German Pact of 29 August 1939 by M. Y. Myagkov, O. A. Rzheshevsky

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Most British Surgeons Would Consider Using a Tissue-Engineered Anterior Cruciate Ligament: A Questionnaire Study by Sarah Rathbone, Nicola Maffulli, Sarah H. Cartmell

“…We produced an online questionnaire relating to tissue engineering of the ACL to obtain input from practising clinicians who currently manage these injuries. 300 British orthopaedic surgeons specialising in knee surgery and soft tissue injury were invited to participate. 86% of surgeons would consider using a TE ACL if it were an option, provided that it showed biological and mechanical success, if it significantly improved the patient satisfaction (63%) or shortened surgical time (62%). 76% felt that using a TE ACL would be more appropriate than a patellar tendon, hamstring, or quadriceps autograft. …”
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A Not Entirely Secret History of Superinjunctions Against the British Press: When Public Interest Arguments Take Second Place by Mélanie Anderson-Dupéré

“…This article demonstrates how pressure has been brought to bear on the legislative and judiciary, as the national British press has criticised failure to recognise the significance of public interest in cases of pre-publication censorship. …”
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The Quebec Task Force on Whiplash-Associated Disorders and the British Columbia Whiplash Initiative: A Study of Insurance Industry Initiatives by Robert W Teasell, Harold Merskey

“…The Quebec Task Force (QTF) report was comprised of a cohort study, a best evidence synthesis and consensus recommendations. The British Columbia Whiplash Initiative (BCWI) propagated the QTF recommendations.…”
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Imperial Borderland? Fear and Rivalry in Representations in Print of the Landscape of Carolina and Louisiana 1660-1753 by Catherine ARMSTRONG

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De la désaffiliation dans My Son the Fanatic (Udayan Prasad, 1997) by Anne-Lise MARIN-LAMELLET

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Bengal: From a Periphery to the Heartland of South Asia by Csaba M. KOVÁCS

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Nemo me impune lacessit or Ne obliviscaris? The Highlander Soldier in British Parliamentary Debates (18th-21st centuries) by Pierre-Louis Coudray

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Opioid agonist therapy discontinuation in British Columbia: a cross-sectional study of people who access harm reduction services by Michael Otterstatter, Jane A Buxton, Kristi Papamihali, Brittany Graham, Lisa Liu, Kimia Ziafat, Bradley Kievit

“…Objectives This study evaluates the prevalence and correlates of opioid agonist therapy (OAT) discontinuation across British Columbia (BC), using a sample of individuals who used substances and accessed harm reduction sites.Design This study uses data from the 2019 cross-sectional Harm Reduction Client Survey (HRCS).Setting The 2019 survey was administered from October to December at 22 harm reduction supply distribution sites across the 5 Regional Health Authorities of BC.Participants The 2019 HRCS was administered among individuals who used illicit substances in the past 6 months and were aged 19 years and above.Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcome was defined as self-reported discontinuation of OAT in the past 6 months. …”
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BRITISH COLONIAL PUNISHMENTS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF NATIVE AUTHORITY PRISON AND CRIME CONTROL IN IDAH DISTRICT, 1929-1945 by OLASUNKANMI VICTOR ASAJU, YAHAYA YUSUF

“… This paper examines British colonial punishments in northern Nigeria, with a specific focus on the Native Authority Prison in Idah district. …”
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Emily Taylor Merriman, Adrian Grafe (eds), Intimate Exposure: Essays on the Public-Private Divide in British Poetry Since 1950 by Sara GREAVES

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Seroprevalences of Hepatitis B Virus and Hepatitis C Virus among Participants of an Asian Health Fair in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia by Stephen Ip, Jo-Ann Ford, Kirby Lau, Vladimir Marquez, Marisa Guan, Carolyn Klassen, Jessica Chan, WC Peter Kwan, Mel Krajden, Eric M Yoshida

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Investigating misclassification of type 1 diabetes in a population-based cohort of British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis using polygenic risk scores by Timing Liu, Alagu Sankareswaran, Gordon Paterson, Genes & Health Research Team, Diane P. Fraser, Sam Hodgson, Qin Qin Huang, Teng Hiang Heng, Meera Ladwa, Nick Thomas, David A. van Heel, Michael N. Weedon, Chittaranjan S. Yajnik, Richard A. Oram, Giriraj R. Chandak, Hilary C. Martin, Sarah Finer

“…Here we used PRSs to investigate the rate of potential misclassification of diabetes amongst British Bangladeshis and Pakistanis. Using linked health records from the Genes & Health cohort (n = 38,344) we defined two reference groups meeting stringent diagnostic criteria: 31 T1D cases, 1842 T2D cases, and after excluding these, two further groups: 839 insulin-treated diabetic individuals with ambiguous features and 5174 non-diabetic controls. …”
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British Edition of the Monroe Doctrine versus ‘Com- munist Militarism’: Collisions between the USSR and the UK in Eastern Countries in the mid-1920s by E. Yu. Sergeev

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