| CDDW 2003 |
CAG POSTER SESSION B - MONDAY
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND THE BURDEN OF ILLNESS
[169]
COSTS OF TREATING NON-VARICEAL UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING IN CANADIAN HOSPITALS
- RESULTS FROM THE REGISTRY ON UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING AND ENDOSCOPY
(RUGBE)
YM Gagnon1, RA Enns2, AR Levy1,2,3
and RUGBE investigators4
1Occam Research & Consulting Inc, Vancouver, British Columbia;
2University of British Columbia (UBC); 3CHEOS, Vancouver,
British Columbia; and 4all other participating hospitals in Canadian Registry
of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding undergoing Endoscopy
[170]
TREATMENT COSTS IN CANADA OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS B AND RESULTING MEDICAL CONDITIONS
YM Gagnon1, AR
Levy1,2, UH Iloeje3, AH Briggs4
1Occam
Research and Consulting Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia; 2CHEOS
and University of British Columbia (UBC); 3Bristol-Myers Squibb Company,
Wallingford, Connecticut, USA; 4HERC, University of Oxford, UK
[171]
LIVER TRANSPLANTATION (LT) IMPROVES HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQOL) IN
PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LIVER DISEASES (CLD) INCLUDING CHRONIC HEPATITIS C (HCV)
D Thorburn, B Feagan, PJ Marotta
University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
[172]
THE RESPONSIVENESS OF THE GLOBAL OVERALL SYMPTOM (GOS) SCORE - A 7-POINT LIKERT
SCALE FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF DYSPEPSIA SYMPTOMS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
S Veldhuyzen van Zanten1,
N Chiba2, D Armstrong2, AN Barkun3, ABR Thomson4,
V Mann5, S Escobedo5, P Sinclair6
1Dalhousie
University, Nova Scotia; 2McMaster University, Ontario; 3McGill
University, Quebec; 4University of Alberta, Alberta; 5AstraZeneca
Canada, Ontario; and 6INSINConsulting, Ontario
[173]
TRENDS IN RISK FACTORS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF HEPATITIS C IN NOVA SCOTIA (1990-2000)
SA Kirkland, J Scott, K Peltekian,
C Brenckmann, AK Saxena
Faculty
of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
[174]
HIGH PREVALENCE OF COELIAC DISEASE IN YOUNG HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
S El-Hadi, K Hassan, E Lewis°, A
Adisesh°, M Moody*, R Fyfield, G Thomas, PE Williams*, D Tuthill, HR Jenkins
Departments of
Child Health, Occupational Health°, Immunology* and Gastroenterology, University
Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
[175]
PATTERNS OF ENDOSCOPY USE IN THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA
RJ Hilsden
Departments of Medicine
and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
[176]
PROVIDERS OF COLONOSCOPY SERVICES IN ALBERTA. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
RJ Hilsden
Departments of Medicine and Community
Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
[177]
COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING PRACTICES OF PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS
SE McGregor,1 RJ Hilsden,2
A Murray,3 HE Bryant1
Alberta Cancer
Board1 and Departments of Medicine2, Family Medicine3
and Community Health Sciences,1 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
[178]
RISK OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) TRANSMISSION FROM PATIENTS TO SURGEONS: MODEL
BASED ON AN UNLINKED ANONYMOUS STUDY OF HCV PREVALENCE IN HOSPITAL PATIENTS
D Thorburn, K Roy, SO Cameron,
J Johnston, EAB McCruden, PR Mills, DJ Goldberg
Gastroenterology Unit & Regional Virus
Laboratory, Gartnavel General Hospital, Clinical Biochemistry, Glasgow Royal
Infirmary & SCIEH, Glasgow, Scotland, UK