49 results match your criteria: ""St. Andrew's" General Hospital[Affiliation]"
J Alzheimers Dis
May 2021
Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
Although many persons with severe dementia (PWSDs) are cared for at home by their family caregivers, few studies have assessed end of life (EOL) care experiences of PWSDs. We present the protocol for the PISCES study (Panel study Investigating Status of Cognitively impaired Elderly in Singapore) which aims to describe the clinical course, health care utilization, and expenditures for community-dwelling PWSDs; and perceived burden, coping, resilience, anticipatory and prolonged grief among their caregivers. This ongoing multi-center prospective longitudinal study is recruiting primary informal caregivers of 250 PWSDs from major restructured public hospitals, community hospitals, home care foundations, and hospices in Singapore.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Surg Case Rep
November 2019
Department of General Surgery, St. Andrew's General Hospital, Patras, Greece.
Introduction: Traumatic rupture of the ovary, due to blunt abdominal trauma, is rarely described in literature and is usually related to ovarian cyst or teratoma.
Presentation Of Case: A 21-year-old Greek, female patient was transported to the Emergency Department complaining of abdominal pain as a result of a catapulting fall from a bicycle. It was determined that both right ovary and liver rupture had occurred.
BMC Neurol
November 2019
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, 12 Science Drive 2, #10-01, Singapore, 117549, Singapore.
Aim: To study the association of caregiver factors and stroke patient factors with rehospitalizations over the first 3 months and subsequent 3-12 months post-stroke in Singapore.
Methods: Patients with stroke and their caregivers were recruited in the Singapore Stroke Study, a prospective yearlong cohort. While caregiver and patient variables were taken from this study, hospitalization data were extracted from the national claims database.
Int Nurs Rev
December 2019
Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Background: Singapore's nursing services and education need to keep pace with the ever-changing healthcare landscape and international trends in nursing capability development.
Aims: To examine the development of Singapore's nursing education and to propose recommendations for its future development.
Sources Of Evidence: This discussion paper examined journal articles, books and grey literature that documented the development of nursing education in Singapore.
J Orthop Surg (Hong Kong)
March 2020
3 School of Biomedical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Balanced soft tissues are important to total knee arthroplasty (TKA) outcomes. Surgical algorithms for balancing are potentially varied in varus and valgus osteoarthritic (OA) knees. While coronal plane varus knee laxity has been documented, no study has objectively defined the medial and lateral laxity of the valgus OA knee.
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July 2019
Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
Introduction: Osteoporosis is the main cause of fractures among women after menopause. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of denosumab compared to bisphosphonates in treating postmenopausal osteoporosis.
Methods: Databases including PubMed and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were systematically searched for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that directly compared denosumab and bisphosphonates.
BMC Health Serv Res
November 2018
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, 12 Science Drive 2, #10-01, Singapore, 117549, Singapore.
BMC Health Serv Res
October 2018
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, 12 Science Drive 2, #10-01, Singapore, 117549, Singapore.
Background: Health services research aimed at understanding service use and improving resource allocation often relies on collecting subjectively reported or proxy-reported healthcare service utilization (HSU) data. It is important to know the discrepancies in such self or proxy reports, as they have significant financial and policy implications. In high-dependency populations, such as stroke survivors, with varying levels of cognitive impairment and dysphasia, caregivers are often potential sources of stroke survivors' HSU information.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Phys Med Rehabil
January 2019
Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
Objective: To perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of a multifactorial, tailored intervention to reduce falls among a heterogeneous group of high-risk elderly people.
Design: Randomized control trial.
Settings: Communities.
Data Brief
August 2018
Center for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Mol Immunol
July 2018
Center for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Department of Plastic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan; College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Background: B lymphocyte-induced maturation protein 1 (Blimp-1) transcription factor is expressed in multiple cell lineages and in particular, T cells. However, the role of Blimp-1 in T cell-mediated allograft tolerance is still unknown.
Methods: This study is the first to investigate transplanted skin allograft survival using transgenic (Tg) mice with T cell overexpression of Blimp-1.
Knee
June 2018
Ipswich General Hospital, Queensland Health, Ipswich, Australia; The CJM Centre, Ipswich, Australia; The Mater Private Hospital, Springfield Lakes, Australia; St Andrew's Ipswich Private Hospital, Ipswich, Australia.
Background And Objective: Persistent pain is reported in up to 34% of patients following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for management of knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Persistent pain in this group is thought to be at least partly reflective of pain sensory hypersensitivity. The objective of this study was to evaluate sensory hypersensitivity, using mechanical and thermal quantitative sensory testing, in patients about to undergo TKA.
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June 2017
Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a multifactorial, tailored program of physical therapy to reduce the occurrence of falls among a heterogeneous group of high-risk elderly Singaporeans recently discharged from the emergency department (ED).
Design: Randomized controlled trial.
Setting: Communities.
J Sex Med
June 2016
Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Introduction: Despite recent advances in our knowledge and treatment strategies in Peyronie's Disease (PD), much remained unknown about this disease.
Aim: To provide a clinical framework and key guideline statements to assist clinicians in an evidence-based management of PD.
Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted to identify published literature relevant to PD.
Neuro Oncol
May 2016
Unit of Neuro-Oncology, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-ICO Duran i Reynals, Barcelona, Spain (C.I., R.V., N.V., S.B., J.B.); Department Cell Biology, Institute of Neurosciences, Physiology and Immunology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Bellaterra, Spain (R.V., J.B.); Department of Radiology, Institut de Diagnòstic per la Imatge, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-ICO Duran i Reynals, Barcelona, Spain (J.J.S.); Department of Neurology, St. Andrew's State General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece (A.A.A.); Service of Neurology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (F.G.).
Background: Primary central nervous system lymphomas may present as diffuse, nonenhancing infiltrative lesions. This rare variant is termed lymphomatosis cerebri (LC). We did a systematic review and analysis of the literature, adding our own cases, to better characterize LC in order to improve early diagnosis and treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
November 2015
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
Objectives: The relationship between disability and comorbidity on mortality is widely perceived as additive in clinical models of frailty.
Design: National data were retrospectively extracted from medical records of community hospital.
Data Sources: There were of 12,804 acutely-disabled patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation in Singapore rehabilitation community hospitals from 1996 through 2005 were followed up for death till 31 December 2011.
Hum Mol Genet
December 2014
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics,
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have mapped risk alleles for at least 10 distinct cancers to a small region of 63 000 bp on chromosome 5p15.33. This region harbors the TERT and CLPTM1L genes; the former encodes the catalytic subunit of telomerase reverse transcriptase and the latter may play a role in apoptosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHarv Rev Psychiatry
November 2014
From Harvard Medical School (Drs. Pollastri, Epstein, and Ablon); Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (Drs. Pollastri, Epstein, and Ablon); St. Andrew's Healthcare, Northampton, UK (Ms. Heath).
In the last decade, Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) has become a popular approach to managing the challenging behaviors of children and adolescents, and has established a growing evidence base for reducing oppositional behavior and related outcomes. In contrast with standard behavioral methods that provide incentives for meeting adult expectations, CPS focuses on identifying and treating lagging cognitive skills that interfere with children's ability to meet these expectations. Since the majority of CPS outcomes have been evaluated in clinical and educational settings as part of internal quality-improvement efforts, only a small proportion of these findings has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals.
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March 2015
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
Objectives: To (1) identify social and rehabilitation predictors of nursing home placement, (2) investigate the association between effectiveness and efficiency in rehabilitation and nursing home placement of patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation from 1996 to 2005 by disease in Singapore.
Design: National data were retrospectively extracted from medical records of community hospital.
Data Sources: There were 12,506 first admissions for rehabilitation in four community hospitals.
Cancer
January 2013
Department of Neurology, St. Andrew's State General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Background: The objective of the current prospective, multicenter, international study was to trace the incidence and severity of acute oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy (OXLIPN) and to determine its clinical pattern. The authors also specifically tested whether patients who had more symptoms of acute OXLIPN eventually would develop a more severe chronic, cumulative form of OXLIPN.
Methods: One hundred seventy patients (mean ± standard deviation age, 63.
J Crit Care
October 2011
King Edward VIII Hospital and Womens Health and HIV Research group, University of Kwa Zulu Natal, Durban 4013, South Africa.
Purpose: To test discrimination and calibration of APACHE-II and SAPS-II risk prediction scores in a cohort of obstetric patients, and to evaluate the effect of modifying these scores for the physiological changes in pregnancy.
Materials And Methods: A retrospective review of obstetric patients, 12 weeks gestation to 48 hours postpartum, admitted to the ICU for more than 24 hours. APACHE-II and SAPS-II, and versions modified for the physiological changes of pregnancy, were evaluated by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and standardized mortality ratios (SMR).
Plast Reconstr Surg
May 2008
Colchester General Hospital, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom (Wong) St. Andrew's Center for Burns and Plastics, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom (Niranjan).
J Nephrol
December 2005
Renal Unit, "St. Andrew's" General Hospital, Tsertidou 1, Patras - Greece.
A 24-year-old male with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and disproportionately high uric acid plasma concentration was admitted to our unit. After studying the patient's medical history, as well as that of the entire family, hyperuricemia was discovered in his brother, while microscopic examination of his brother's and mother's urine revealed abundant uric acid crystals. After performing purine metabolic studies, it was determined that the two siblings suffered from partial hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) deficiency (Kelley-Seegmiller syndrome).
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July 1988
St. Andrew's Hospital, NorthamptonU.K. Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre OxfordU.K. Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO9 4XY U.K.