Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore by Lee, Jing Ian

“…This paper seeks to explain why there has been a decline in grandparental care in Singapore. I interviewed eight Singaporean grandparents of different genders and races to garner their perspective on childcare arrangements. …”
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Point of care assay for blood aripiprazole concentrations: development, validation and utility by Atkins, M, Taylor, D, Catalan, A, Desouza, N, Chesney, E, Reilly, TJ, Baburina, I, Hilaire, MR, Dratcu, L, Harland, R, Salamone, SJ, McGuire, P

“…</p> <p><strong>Aims:&nbsp;</strong>To detail the development, validation and utility of a new point of care (POC) test for finger-stick capillary blood concentrations of aripiprazole.…”

A realist evaluation to explain and understand the role of paramedics in primary care by Eaton, G, Wong, G, Tierney, S, Williams, V, Mahtani, KR

“…Background: In response to the unsustainable workload and workforce crises in primary care, paramedics (with their generalist clinical background acquired from ambulance service experience) are increasingly employed in primary care. …”

Why do we care how much oxygen tumors have? by Martin, LAW, Hammond, EM

Timely community palliative and end-of-life care: a realist synthesis by Petrova, M, Wong, G, Kuhn, I, Wellwood, I, Barclay, S

“…<strong>Background</strong> Community-based and home-based palliative and end-of-life care (PEoLC) services, often underpinned by primary care provision, are becoming increasingly popular. …”

Should investors care where private equity managers went to school? by Fuchs, F, Füss, R, Jenkinson, T, Morkoetter, S

Comparing the prevalence of multimorbidity using different operational definitions in primary care in Singapore based on a cross-sectional study using retrospective, large administrative data by Lee, Janis Yi An, Xie, Ying, Lee, Sabrina Poay Sian, Lee, Eng Sing

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Gaps In Primary Care And Health System Performance In Six Latin American And Caribbean Countries by Macinko, James, Guanais, Frederico C., Mullachery, Pricila, Jimenez, Geronimo

Subjects: “…Organization and Delivery of Care…”
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CRISPR-enabled point-of-care genotyping for APOL1 genetic risk assessment by Greensmith, Robert, Lape, Isadora T., Riella, Cristian V., Schubert, Alexander J., Metzger, Jakob J., Dighe, Anand S., Tan, Xiao, Hemmer, Bernhard, Rau, Josefine, Wendlinger, Sarah, Diederich, Nora, Schütz, Anja, Riella, Leonardo V.

“…However, current methods, relying on hybridization or sequencing, are unsuitable for point-of-care settings. In contrast, CRISPR-based-diagnostics offer high sensitivity and specificity for point-of-care applications. …”
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Pet loss in Singapore: understanding anticipatory grief and the role of advance care planning by Harindran, Ravin

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Person-centred care for dementia patients (back-end and front-end development) by Leow, Mandfred Hong Jie

“…This report documents the development and transition of the Person-Centred Care System (PEAR) from a monolithic .NET 5-based application to a microservices architecture with ReactJS for the front end. …”
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Creation of a world class manufacturing system in a health-care company by Tay, Albert Kim Chuan.

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Automated mean arterial pressure control for postoperative patients in intensive care conditions by Ma, Jie

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The fate and transformation of pharmaceutical and personal care products in wastewater treatment plants – (ii) by Ng, Thai Yeng

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Pear person-centred care for dementia patients (front end Android app) by Ng, Jian Xiong

“…With so much emphasis placed on the individualism of eachpatient, this could stress out the caregivers in a care centre. To reduce the workload on the caregiver, technology could play apart and give rise to more effective healthcare services.In this project, a Person-Centred Care system was created to assist the caregivers who were responsible for taking care of their patients and increasing the efficiency of dementia care in a care centre. …”
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Improving clinical care of patients in Nipah outbreaks: moving beyond 'compassionate use' by Hassan, MZ, Rojek, A, Olliaro, P, Horby, P

“…Current care relies on supportive measures and the ‘compassionate use’ of unapproved drugs like ribavirin and remdesivir. …”

Investigating the health and care needs of pregnant women with multiple long-term conditions by D'Arcy, R

Sharing is caring? International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology review and recommendations for sharing programming code by Tazare, J, Wang, SV, Gini, R, Prieto Alhambra, D, Arlett, P, Morales Leaver, DR, Morton, C, Logie, J, Popovic, J, Donegan, K, Schneeweiss, S, Douglas, I, Schultze, A

A systematic analysis of the contribution of genetics to multimorbidity and comparisons with primary care data by Murrin, O, Mounier, N, Voller, B, Tata, L, Gallego-Moll, C, Roso-Llorach, A, Carrasco-Ribelles, LA, Fox, C, Allan, LM, Woodward, RM, Liang, X, Valderas, JM, Khalid, S, Dudbridge, F, Lamb, SE, Mancini, M, Farmer, L, Boddy, K, Bowden, J, Melzer, D, Frayling, TM, Masoli, JAH, Pilling, LC, Violán, C, Delgado, J

“…We address this gap by integrating large-scale primary-care and genetic data from multiple studies to interrogate multimorbidity patterns and producing digital resources to support future research.…”

First nosocomial cluster of COVID-19 due to the Delta variant in a major acute care hospital in Singapore: investigations and outbreak response by Lim, Wei Yen, Tan, Glorijoy Shi En, Htun, Htet Lin, Phua, Hwee Pin, Kyaw, Win Mar, Guo, Huiling, Cui, Lin, Mak, Tze Minn, Poh, Bee Fong, Wong, Judith Chui Ching, Setoh, Yin Xiang, Ang, Brenda Sze Peng, Chow, Angela Li Ping

“…Objectives: The first large nosocomial cluster of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Singapore in April 2021 led to partial closure of a major acute care hospital. This study examined factors associated with infection among patients, staff and visitors; investigated the possible role of aerosol-based transmission; evaluated the effectiveness of BNT162.b2 and mRNA1273 vaccines; and described the successful containment of the cluster. …”
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