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Evidence points to many benefits of "early palliative care" to improve patients' quality of life while living with a serious illness. Yet most trials of early palliative care have not included patients with hematologic malignancy (HM). Unfortunately, patients with HM are also known to have heavy sym...

Osteoarthritis of the knee is a common degenerative disorder affecting the local population. The prevalence of knee osteoarthritis is 13% in female and 7% in male based on a local study. In end stage osteoarthritis, surgical intervention is warranted when conservative measures failed. High tibial os...

In order to tackle with the growing pressure on the healthcare system in Hong Kong, it is important for all nurse leaders to develop leadership competencies and build up high performing teams regardless of their level of responsibilities and working background. From 9th to 20th October 2017, a group...

The World Health Organization defines palliative care as a way of caring for people with life-threatening illnesses which focuses on quality of life, through the prevention and relief of suffering by prevention and management of pain and other problems, physical, psychological and spiritual. In 2014...

Many challenges have evolved in the health care system that support the need for interprofessional collaboration. Over time, separate specialties and professions have been created to focus on specific aspects of patients’ health and care such that a single profession today cannot adequately me...

Electrophysiological recording (IONM) during neurosurgical, orthopedic, and vascular surgery are gradually becoming part of standard medical practice, mainly because it provides information regarding the functional integrity of the nervous system. The merits of IONM have been extensively reported in...

IntroductionFall prevention is always a big challenge in our surgical units. Not only elderly, even the young adult fell due to their illness status or medication side-effect. The fall incident rate was rising as only in the 1st quarter(1Q) of 2018 was 0.59. (n=5), while the fall rate was 0.4 (n=3) ...

There are challenges of teaching junior doctors on patient safety. For junior doctors, particularly interns, those at the start of their professional career, found it difficult to identify with patient safety as a discipline, so they did not prioritize it. In part this was because those with little ...

Support Operations are one of the critical functions in hospital operations. At the new 1800-bed Woodlands Health Campus (WHC) in Singapore, support operations were identified as a key area for innovation.  A coherent strategy was developed in tandem with clinical services planning to provide e...