Commentary
Geriatric Surgery Service – Our Journey Piloting in Colorectal Surgery and Future Challenges
The Geriatric Surgery Service of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) today was born in 2007. The idea arose from a journal article that was...
Benefits of Population Segmentation Analysis for Developing Health Policy to Promote Patient-Centred Care
The philosophy of patient-centred care requires a paradigm shift away from fragmented institution-centred care to integrated care models such as care teams that develop...
Return to Work is an Important Therapeutic Goal
Sickness absence within the Singapore workforce has risen over the past decade. The proportion of employees who took outpatient sick leave rose from 49.3%...
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...