Volume 36, Number 8

August 2007

An Outcomes Approach to Evaluate Professional Development Programmes for Medical Educators

Do our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes provide significant measurable and desirable results? The key metric for evaluating programmes in the past has been...

Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation in Singapore: The Asian Centre for Liver Diseases and Transplantation Experience

Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has evolved dramatically over the past decade and it has continued to progress and expand with the realisation of...

Risk Factors for Conversion to Open Surgery in Patients With Acute Cholecystitis Undergoing Interval Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become a routine surgical procedure in general surgical units all over the world. Its implementation has expanded dramatically and is considered...

Seroepidemiology of Varicella and the Reliability of a Self-reported History of Varicella Infection in Singapore Military Recruits

Varicella is an acute, self-limiting exanthematous disease characterised by a prolonged period of morbidity lasting up to 2 weeks.1 Despite being mostly benign in...

Adverse Hospital Outcomes Associated With the Choice of Empiric Antibiotics in Klebsiella pneumoniae Pneumonia: A Retrospective Observational Study

Klebsiella pneumoniae ranks high as a cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalised patients in Malaysia.1-3 This appears unique, as most reports from other...