Publications by authors named "W G Fong"
Background: Adverse food reactions include food allergy (FA; immune-mediated) and food intolerances (non-immune-mediated). FA are classified into IgE- and non-IgE-mediated FA. There is limited information available about changes in FA prevalence over time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Prehabilitation has been increasingly utilized to optimize perioperative outcomes. In this study, we aim to evaluate the impact of uni- and multimodal prehabilitation on functional capacity and postoperative outcomes among surgical oncology patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.
Patients And Methods: Three electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, Cochrane) were systematically searched up until December 2023.
Background: The professional identity of doctors is evolving with physicians now required to be 'scholars', facilitating the education of students and healthcare teammates as educators. Mentoring is widely practiced and is postulated to facilitate professional identity formation (PIF) through socialization. Preliminary literature review suggested few studies looking into how formal mentoring programmes affect PIF of novice clinician educators, particularly an Asian context.
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- Advanced care planning (ACP) involves ongoing discussions among patients, families, and healthcare professionals about future healthcare needs.
- Patients with rheumatic diseases often face significant symptoms and complications, but the rate of completed ACP in this group is low.
- A quality improvement project in Singapore successfully increased ACP completion rates from 0 to 1 per month over a year through two Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, indicating a need for further research on enhancing ACP engagement in these patients.