Commentary
Personal Recovery in Serious Mental Illness: Making Sense of the Concept
The literature surrounding the recovery movement in mental health is abound and in this movement, we have heard a growing optimism in the possibility...
Making Clinical Practice Guidelines Pragmatic: How Big Data and Real World Evidence Can Close...
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have become ubiquitous in every field of medicine over the past few decades with thousands being published annually. Guidelines attempt...
Health Technology Disinvestment in Singapore
Globally, there is increasing demand and spending on healthcare. The diffusion of an ever-growing number of drugs, diagnostic tests, medical devices, and procedural interventions...
Yellow Fever – What It Means for Singapore
Yellow fever (YF) is an arthropod-borne viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Hemagogus mosquitoes, belonging to the flavivirus family which includes dengue,...
Growth Assessment and Monitoring during Childhood
Human physical development is continuous from infancy to maturity and involves changes in body size and appearance, including the development of secondary sexual characteristics....
General Practitioner’s Attitudes and Confidence in Managing Patients with Dementia in Singapore
Dementia is a syndrome characterised by a deterioration in memory, thinking, behaviour and the ability to perform daily activities. As it is a major...
Mandated Consent – Not a Viable Solution for Organ Transplant in Singapore
The last decade has seen an alarming increase in the prevalence of end-stage renal failure in Singapore, attributed to factors such as dietary and...
Can Robots Accelerate the Learning Curve for Surgical Training? An Analysis of Residents and...
Surgical traineeship has traditionally been based on a master apprentice model where learning takes place in the operating theatre. This approach has changed significantly...
Prehabilitation and Its Role in Geriatric Surgery
The population in Singapore is ageing rapidly. According to statistics, by 2030, 1 in 2 adults in Singapore will be >65 years old. As...
The Elderly Emergency Laparotomy Patient – More Than Just the Operation
The emergency laparotomy is an operation of the elderly patient with a rise in mortality as age increases. Half of patients in the United...