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Ann Acad Med Singap
September 2024
Dr SN Wong Skin, Hair, Nails & Laser Specialist Clinic, Singapore.
Intern Med J
November 2022
Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deficiencies of the current healthcare system in terms of a disconnect between primary and tertiary care and increasing subspecialisation, the focus on acute episodic care rather than on prevention in a time where chronic disease prevails and an inefficient use of healthcare resources. Herein, we present the case for an alternative model of healthcare delivery - shared medical appointments - which are efficient, effective and empowering and can be transitioned to the virtual environment successfully. We highlight the barriers to implementation and how these can be overcome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfect Prev Pract
December 2021
Department of Infection Control, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
According to the UEMS (Union Europeene des Medicins Specialises) Section of surgery Board of Surgery, "Emergency Surgery" can be defined "as surgery that is required to deal with an acute threat to life, organ, limb or tissue caused by external trauma, acute disease process, acute exacerbation of a chronic disease process, or complication of a surgical or other interventional procedure". Performance of emergency surgery require complex and varied skills and abilities to achieve procedures from different fields of surgery: abdominal, urologic, thoracic, vascular, soft tissue, skeletal) within an interval of 24 hours (1). In U.
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December 2021
Department of Microbiology, Queen Elizabeth University, Hospital, Glasgow, UK.
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