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Phase II Trial of Gemcitabine and Cisplatin Sequentially Administered in Asian Patients With Unresectable...
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. It ranks first among males and third among females in the incidence of...
Factors Causing Delay in Discharge of Elderly Patients in an Acute Care Hospital
With the introduction of block budget for acute care hospitals, cost containment is an important issue for all secondary and tertiary hospitals. Though health...
Clinical and Social Correlates of Duration of Untreated Psychosis in First-episode Psychosis Patients
First-episode studies of schizophrenia have reported that the longer the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP), the poorer the response to antipsychotic medication and treatment...
Factors Associated With Functional Decline of Hospitalised Older Persons Following Discharge From an Acute...
Hospitalisation is a stressful event for the older person. The physiological changes associated with ageing, such as decreased muscle strength and aerobic activity, reduced...
Clinical Experience with Three Combination Regimens for the Treatment of High-risk Febrile Neutropenia
Cancer patients who become severely neutropenic as a result of intensive myelosuppressive chemotherapy are at high risk for developing life-threatening infections, and unless they...
The Clinical Predictors of Hypertension and Sleepiness in an Asian Population with Sleep-disordered Breathing
Sleep physicians have only recently began to learn much about the epidemiology of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) from large, well conducted prospective community-based studies. These...
Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Multiple System Atrophy in Singapore
Multiple system atrophy (MSA), a term introduced in 1969, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which occurs sporadically and is characterised by parkinsonism, cerebellar dysfunction,...
Tuberculosis Peritonitis in Negara Brunei Darussalam
There has been a resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in many countries, including developed nations, especially with the HIV pandemic and the increase in immigration.1,2...
Broadband Ultrasound Attenuation Reference Database for Southeast Asian Males and Females
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) systems measuring the calcaneus are currently approved for the assessment of osteoporotic risks in Europe, Canada and the USA. A QUS...
An Assessment of Electronically Captured Data in the Patient Care Enhancement System (PACES) for...
There is growing awareness of the need for efficient, real-time identification of infectious disease outbreaks. The bioterrorism attacks involving anthrax bacilli, 1 and the...