Impact of bystander-focused public health interventions on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survival: a cohort study.

Background: Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) increases an individual's chance of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), but the frequency of bystander CPR is low in many communities. We aimed to assess the cumulative effect of CPR-targeted public health interventions in Singapore, which were incrementally introduced between 2012 and 2016.

Methods: We did a secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study of adult, non-traumatic OHCAs, through the Singapore registry.

The social transformation of Singapore medicine through 55 years of the SMJ.

The Singapore Medical Journal (SMJ) has in the past 55 years reflected the phenomenal socioeconomic progress of Singapore. Publications in the pre-independent years were mainly on diseases like cholera, diphtheria, leprosy, tetanus and worm infestation. In the new millennium, the research papers included molecular genetics, health economics, obesity, Internet medicine, cancer, cosmetic surgery and palliative medicine.