Medico-legal dispute resolution: Experience of a tertiary-care hospital in Singapore.

Introduction: The resource burden of healthcare disputes and medico-legal claims has been rising. A dispute resolution system operating at the hospital level could ameliorate this disturbing trend.

Methods: This is a retrospective observational study on patient complaints and medico-legal cases received by the dispute resolution unit of an acute tertiary hospital from 2011 to 2015.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): chest radiographic features in children.

Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a recently recognized condition of viral origin associated with substantial morbidity and mortality rates in adults. Little information is available on its radiologic manifestations in children.

Objective: The goal of this study was to characterize the radiographic presentation of children with SARS.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome: management and reconfiguration of a radiology department in an infectious disease situation.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, is a new infectious disease pandemic with important public health concerns. The high infectivity rate by means of droplet transmission places health care workers at substantial risk of contracting the disease. Radiology departments are particularly affected, since imaging plays a vital role in both diagnosis and follow-up of this disease.