Original Article
Five-Year Review of Patients Presenting with Non-Accidental Injury to a Children’s Emergency Unit in...
Physical abuse constitutes 60% of child maltreatment. In Singapore, the Child Protective Service of the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) has reported...
Antenatal Anxiety: Prevalence and Patterns in a Routine Obstetric Population
human emotion, and are thought to evolve from childhood adversity leading to chronically increased stress reactivity.1 A local study found that women are more...
Does Low Birth Weight Vary Geospatially in Singapore?
Low birth weight (LBW) is defined as birth weight <2500 g and is associated with perinatal mortality, morbidity, chronic disease in later life (e.g....
Deliberate Self-Harm in Psychiatric Outpatients Aged 14-35 Years in Singapore
The purposeful act of harming oneself physically— usually without suicidal intent such as by cutting, hitting or burning—is referred to in clinical literature by...
Performance of the Paediatric Index of Mortality 3 and Paediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction 2...
Initially designed to provide an indication of the risk of death in certain subsets of critically ill patients, the use of severity of illness...
Computed Tomography Urography: Comparison of Image Quality and Radiation Dose between Single- and Split-Bolus...
Previous studies have demonstrated that computerised tomography (CT) urography is more accurate in the detection and characterisation of renal masses,1-5 detection of urinary calculi,...
The Prevalence and Severity of Myopia among Suburban Schoolchildren in Taiwan
The prevalence and severity of myopia has been studied in 5 large-scale, population-based, and cross-sectional surveys of schoolchildren aged 7 to 18 years old....
Quality of Life across Mental Disorders in Psychiatric Outpatients
Quality of life (QoL) can be defined as an “individual’s perception of their position in life...in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns”....
Apnoeic and Hypopnoeic Load in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Correlation with Epworth Sleepiness Scale
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a common disorder, estimated to affect up to 15-30% of the Singaporean population. It is characterised by recurrent collapse...
The influence of ethnicity on exclusively breast-fed infants’ anthropometry in a multiethnic Asian population
Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months is a recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO), for its benefits in reducing gastrointestinal tract infections and atopic...