Original Article
Self-rated Health, Associated Factors and Diseases: A Community-based Cross-sectional Study of Singaporean Adults...
Subjective health indicators including self-rated health (SRH) have been shown to improve patient care in the clinical setting1 and are also useful in measuring...
Multi-disease Health Screening in an Urban Low-income Setting: A Community-based Study
With the burden of chronic disease rising amongst rapidly urbanising Asian populations, active participation in health screening would allow for early detection and management...
Prospective Randomised Study of Intra-Articular Fractures of the Distal Radius: Comparison Between External...
Intra-articular fractures of the distal radius represent high energy, complex, unstable injuries and the optimal treatment remains controversial. Kreder et al1 showed that external...
A Review of Fatal Road Traffic Accidents in Singapore from 2000 to 2004
As countries become more developed, there is often an accompanying rise in life expectancy. However, increasing motorisation that accompanies economic growth has led to...
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) Patterns in Bariatric Surgical Practice and Response of OSA...
The incidence of OSA in severely obese Asians is poorly documented. This is also compounded by a varied racial profile across Asia. Singapore, with...
Laparoscopic Systemic Retroperitoneal Lymphadenectomy for Women with Low-Risk Early Endometrial Cancer
Endometrial cancer is the third most frequent gynaecologic cancer in Korea, following cervical cancer and ovarian cancer. With the increasingly Westernised lifestyles of Korean...
Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy for Renal Tumours: Early Experience in Singapore General Hospital
With the increasing availability of ultrasound and computed tomography scans, more patients are being diagnosed with incidental renal tumours. Up to 80% of tumours...
New Hope for an Old Cure: A Pilot Animal Study on Selective Venesection in...
Ischaemia-Reperfusion (I/R) injury describes a paradoxical phenomenon where reperfusion of tissues following a prolonged period of acute onset ischaemia causes further injury both to...
New House-Officers’ Views on Unprofessional Behaviour
The need for incorporation of biomedical ethics and professionalism into the formal undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum has been increasingly recognised in the last twenty...
Acceptance of Information and Communication Technologies for Healthcare Delivery: A SingHealth Polyclinics Study
Information and communication technologies, such as internet portal and short message system (SMS), are increasingly used in healthcare delivery worldwide.1,2 Typically, these technologies are...