item: #1 of 63 id: cord-003360-mkv1jc7u author: Chen, Yirong title: The Effect of School Closure on Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Transmission in Singapore: A Modeling Approach date: 2018-10-22 words: 4346 flesch: 47 summary: The effects of school closure due to 1) institutional outbreaks, 2) public holidays, and 3) school vacations were assessed using a Bayesian time series modeling approach. School closure was associated with a reduction in HFMD transmission rate. keywords: cases; closure; disease; effect; hfmd; number; outbreak; school cache: cord-003360-mkv1jc7u.txt plain text: cord-003360-mkv1jc7u.txt item: #2 of 63 id: cord-007026-ejv0gidp author: Coleman, Kristen K title: Adenoviral Infections in Singapore: Should New Antiviral Therapies and Vaccines Be Adopted? date: 2020-02-15 words: 4607 flesch: 41 summary: METHODS: To understand the epidemiology of HAdV infections in Singapore, we studied 533 HAdV-positive clinical samples collected from 396 pediatric and 137 adult patients in Singapore from 2012 to 2018. Clinical epidemiological data regarding HAdV infections are relatively sparse for Southeast Asia (SEA). keywords: adenovirus; hadv; human; infections; isolates; patients; samples; singapore; study cache: cord-007026-ejv0gidp.txt plain text: cord-007026-ejv0gidp.txt item: #3 of 63 id: cord-010050-utbrf4ad author: Fisher, Dale A title: Preventing local transmission of SARS: lessons from Singapore date: 2003-06-02 words: 2366 flesch: 50 summary: In theory, the hospital is to remain SARS free -by instituting measures to detect cases, providing isolation for suspected cases and referring probable SARS cases to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (the designated SARS hospital). In the first 4 weeks of our engagement with SARS, there have been 394 admissions (including 65 staff) to these wards, with 23 individuals (4.3%) referred as suspect or probable SARS cases. keywords: cases; contact; health; hospital; patient; sars cache: cord-010050-utbrf4ad.txt plain text: cord-010050-utbrf4ad.txt item: #4 of 63 id: cord-016006-7yas4yqt author: Yoshikawa, Minako Jen title: Dengue and chikungunya virus infection in Southeast Asia: active governmental intervention in Republic of Singapore date: 2010-06-18 words: 5577 flesch: 43 summary: During the meeting, Singapore presented informative analysis of the historical and current situation of dengue infection and integrated approach on vector control and virus surveillance. Press release, document number Communicable diseases surveillance in Singapore Guide book on prevention of mosquito breeding 4 th edition Shared responsibilities, unshared power: the politics of policymaking in Singapore Cost-effective real-time reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) to screen for dengue virus followed by rapid single-tube multiplex RT-PCR for serotyping of the virus Horizontal and vertical dispersal of dengue vector mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus Decision tree algorithms predict the diagnosis and outcome of dengue fever in the early phase of illness 13th BMS IAC meeting announces key achievements in translational & clinical research efforts in Singapore Dengue control strategy in Singapore Campaign against dengue Impact of 'carpet-combing' vector control operations in terminating the 2005 dengue outbreak in Singapore Singapore's first chikungunya outbreak -surveillance and response Clinical and laboratory findings of the 2008 chikungunya outbreak in Little India Entomologic and virologic investiation of chikungunya Risk factors for transmission of chikungunya virus infection in Singapore Dengue vector mosquitoes in Japan: the role of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti in the 1942-1944 dengue epidemics of Japanese Main Islands Expansion of the habitation area of Aedes albopictus, a dengue fever vector mosquito Dengue fever dengue hemorrhagic fever and new findings Viral titers in the sera of dengue patients among travelers at the quarantine station of Kansai International Airport National Institute of Infectious Disease and Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases Control Division, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. keywords: cases; chikungunya; control; dengue; diseases; fever; health; infection; mosquito; nea; singapore; surveillance; vector cache: cord-016006-7yas4yqt.txt plain text: cord-016006-7yas4yqt.txt item: #5 of 63 id: cord-016405-86kghmzf author: Lai, Allen Yu-Hung title: Impact of Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in Singapore: A Case Study of Singapore’s Experience in Fighting the SARS Epidemic date: 2014-06-13 words: 9742 flesch: 46 summary: ABC News Managing transboundary crises: Identifying the building blocks of an effective response system APEC partners with Singapore on disaster management HFA implementation review for ACDR 2010 Asian development outlook 2003 update Accessed 29 ADRC country report Impact of SARS on the economy, Singapore Government Avian influenza: The tip of the iceberg Severe acute respiratory syndrome -Singapore How Singapore avoided WHO advisory, Toronto star Impact to lung health of haze from forest fires: The Singapore experience SARS: Economic impacts and implications, ERD Policy Brief No. 15. Asia Development Bank Advancing disaster risk financing and insurance in ASEAN countries: Framework and options for implementation, Global facility for disaster reduction and recovery A new world now after hotel collapse, The Straits Times Epidemiology and control of SARS in Singapore Pandemic influenza preparedness and health systems challenges in Asia: Results from rapid analyses in 6 Asian countries Crisis decision making: The centralization thesis revisited Managing a Health-related Crisis: SARS in Singapore Singapore Government. keywords: crisis; disaster; disease; economic; epidemic; government; health; impact; management; measures; moh; outbreak; public; response; risk; sars; singapore; singapore government; structure cache: cord-016405-86kghmzf.txt plain text: cord-016405-86kghmzf.txt item: #6 of 63 id: cord-021673-vs4famsa author: Foley, M. title: Establishing Singapore as the Events and Entertainment Capital of Asia: Strategic Brand Diversification date: 2009-11-16 words: 6461 flesch: 38 summary: The decision to engage in city event branding of this sort is almost always politically motivated, rather than cultural or even economic. Sporting and cultural events also fit with the dominant logic of consumption, providing a ' point of identification ' ( Richards and Wilson, 2004, p. 1932 ) for consumers in a crowded marketplace. keywords: asia; capital; cities; city; events; festivals; new; place; policy; singapore; sports; strategy; tourism; world cache: cord-021673-vs4famsa.txt plain text: cord-021673-vs4famsa.txt item: #7 of 63 id: cord-022234-jjaqlyo5 author: Beirman, David title: A Comparative Assessment of Three Southeast Asian Tourism Recovery Campaigns: Singapore Roars: Post SARS 2003, Bali Post-the October 12, 2002 Bombing, and WOW Philippines 2003 date: 2009-11-16 words: 9273 flesch: 39 summary: SE Asian tourism remained relatively buoyant throughout most of 2002 partially due to the perceived isolation of SE Asia from the Afghan and Middle East trouble spots. At the private sector level, the Bangkok-headquartered Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), the main travel industry body representing the Pacific Rim, placed the restoration of SE Asian tourism as its top priority project from the time of the Bali bombing and was supported by national tourist offices and peak travel industry bodies of all SE Asian nations and the International Air Transport Association (IATA). keywords: asia; bali; campaign; government; marketing; media; pata; philippines; recovery; regional; sars; se asia; singapore; tourism; tourism industry; travel cache: cord-022234-jjaqlyo5.txt plain text: cord-022234-jjaqlyo5.txt item: #8 of 63 id: cord-022473-l4jniccw author: Wilder-Smith, Annelies title: As Travel Medicine Practitioner during the SARS Outbreak in Singapore date: 2009-11-16 words: 2889 flesch: 70 summary: I followed up all imported cases of SARS, and all incoming flights to Singapore with SARS cases on board. Multivariate analysis showed that asymptomatic SARS was associated with lower SARS antibody titers and higher use of masks compared to SARS that presented with pneumonia. keywords: cases; healthcare; hospital; outbreak; sars; singapore cache: cord-022473-l4jniccw.txt plain text: cord-022473-l4jniccw.txt item: #9 of 63 id: cord-023049-fio7cjj5 author: None title: 2017 Peripheral Nerve Society Meeting July 8–12, 2017 Sitges, Barcelona, Spain date: 2017-06-22 words: 145714 flesch: 46 summary: We compared the median SNAP with radial SNAP measured antidromically at digit 1 in GBS patients whose nerve conduction study showed the sural-sparing pattern. The aim of the present investigation is to summarize the current knowledge on sweating disturbances in GBS patients. keywords: 1,2; activity; acute; addition; age; aim; amyloid; analysis; anti; antibodies; antibody; associated; axonal; axons; barré; baseline; biopsy; blood; cases; cause; cells; center; changes; charcot; children; chronic; cidp patients; cmt patients; cmt1a; cohort; conduction study; control patients; controls; course; criteria; data; days; degeneration; demyelinating; department; development; diabetic; diagnosis; differences; disability; disease; dominant; dose; effect; examination; expression; f 1; family; findings; following; foot; france; function; g 1; gbs patients; gene; group; guillain; healthy; hospital; human; igg; impairment; improvement; increase; inflammatory; injury; institute; intravenous; involvement; ivig; j 1; k 1; levels; limbs; loss; mag; marie; mean; measures; median; medical; medicine; mice; model; months; motor; motor nerve; mouse; mri; muscle; mutations; ncs; negative; nerve; nerve conduction; nerve fibers; nerve injury; nerve regeneration; neurological; neurology; neurons; neuropathies; neuropathy; new; nf155; non; normal; novel; number; onset; outcome; pain; participants; patients; phenotype; placebo; pmp22; polyneuropathy; positive; potential; present; progression; protein; range; reduced; report; respectively; response; results; risk; role; scale; schwann; score; sensory; sequencing; serum; severe; severity; skin; strength; studies; study; subjects; sural; symptoms; syndrome; system; test; testing; therapeutic; therapy; time; tissue; tooth; total; treatment; ttr; type; ulnar; university; upper; usa; variants; weakness; weeks; y 1; years cache: cord-023049-fio7cjj5.txt plain text: cord-023049-fio7cjj5.txt item: #10 of 63 id: cord-023140-ytal7wog author: Henderson, Joan C. title: Responding to crisis: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and hotels in Singapore date: 2004-12-09 words: 3950 flesch: 43 summary: Crisis management planning thus emerges as an essential responsibility of the tourism industry as a whole and it is hoped that this account has contributed to the debate about the principles of crisis management within a tourism context whilst also illuminating good practice in the hotel sector. Further health‐related crises seem inevitable in the modern world and some guidelines for dealing with these are proposed, based on the Singapore experience and an existing framework for tourism crisis management. keywords: crisis; disaster; health; hotels; industry; management; sars; singapore; stb; tourism; virus cache: cord-023140-ytal7wog.txt plain text: cord-023140-ytal7wog.txt item: #11 of 63 id: cord-027047-xlz576hm author: Koh, Vanessa title: The Singaporean State and Community Care in the Time of Corona date: 2020-06-04 words: 3518 flesch: 44 summary: By insisting that the way forward is to redesign these places of residence, the state is reducing what is indeed a sociopolitical problem-the second-class treatment that migrant workers endure-to a solely technocratic one that can be solved by a mere architectural makeover. Other responses by aid organizations, however, have foregrounded personal narratives and private messages between migrant workers and volunteers as testimony in order to emphasize the humanity and plight of migrant workers. keywords: care; concern; dormitories; maintenance; migrant; singapore; state; workers cache: cord-027047-xlz576hm.txt plain text: cord-027047-xlz576hm.txt item: #12 of 63 id: cord-030529-2wkes9nk author: Goggin, Gerard title: COVID-19 apps in Singapore and Australia: reimagining healthy nations with digital technology date: 2020-08-14 words: 7372 flesch: 44 summary: The Act creates several serious offences dealing with COVID app data, including 'non-permitted, use, or disclosure', 'uploading COVID app data without consent', 'retaining or disclosing uploaded data outside Australia', 'decrypting encrypted COVID app data' and 'requiring participation in relation to COVIDSafe' (Privacy Amendment, 2020: 4). 'COVID app data' is defined as 'data relating to a person . . . keywords: app; apps; australia; concerns; contact; covid-19; covidsafe; data; government; health; pandemic; people; privacy; public; singapore; tracetogether; use cache: cord-030529-2wkes9nk.txt plain text: cord-030529-2wkes9nk.txt item: #13 of 63 id: cord-031942-mfz313q0 author: Kim, Hye Kyung title: Effects of COVID-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing: A Multicountry Comparative Study date: 2020-09-13 words: 7774 flesch: 30 summary: Prior theorizing on risk communication has often focused on immediate outcomes of information exposure; yet there is a lack of understanding about the subsequent information management that follows exposure to risk information (So et al., 2019) . The online survey results showed that misinformation exposure reduced information insufficiency, which subsequently led to greater information avoidance and heuristic processing, as well as less systematic processing of COVID-19 information. keywords: avoidance; covid-19; exposure; information; insufficiency; misinformation; processing; risk; sample; seeking cache: cord-031942-mfz313q0.txt plain text: cord-031942-mfz313q0.txt item: #14 of 63 id: cord-104426-qz8pffei author: Tay, K title: COVID-19 in Singapore and Malaysia: Rising to the Challenges of Orthopaedic Practice in an Evolving Pandemic date: 2020-04-07 words: 4521 flesch: 44 summary: Malays Orthop J DOI: nan sha: doc_id: 104426 cord_uid: qz8pffei With the increasing number of COVID-19 cases and related deaths worldwide, we decided to share the development of this condition in Singapore and Malaysia. The index imported COVID-19 case was diagnosed in Singapore on 23rd January 2020. keywords: cases; covid-19; health; hospitals; malaysia; management; medical; orthopaedic; patients; singapore; staff; ward cache: cord-104426-qz8pffei.txt plain text: cord-104426-qz8pffei.txt item: #15 of 63 id: cord-178791-cywjp5jh author: Chin, Wei Chien Benny title: Spatial super-spreaders and super-susceptibles in human movement networks date: 2020-05-11 words: 7751 flesch: 48 summary: For weighted degree measurements (right column), the East region has higher degree subzones; the number of high degree subzones drop in the Central region; North, North East, and West regions have relatively more higher degree subzones when compared with their non-weighted counterparts. The MapEquation algorithm with the provided data reveals 17 different communities for both weekday flow network and weekend flow network. keywords: core; data; degree; entropy; fig; flow; human; networks; singapore; subzones; super; weekdays cache: cord-178791-cywjp5jh.txt plain text: cord-178791-cywjp5jh.txt item: #16 of 63 id: cord-252292-qz9msrl7 author: Wilder-Smith, Annelies title: Experience of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Singapore: Importation of Cases, and Defense Strategies at the Airport date: 2006-03-08 words: 2167 flesch: 52 summary: [2] [3] [4] There remains a concern that, even with such measures, prevention of transmission from imported SARS cases may be difficult for countries that receive many international travelers from areas badly affected by SARS. The country is therefore potentially vulnerable to importation of SARS cases that may initiate new outbreaks. keywords: cases; measures; sars; singapore cache: cord-252292-qz9msrl7.txt plain text: cord-252292-qz9msrl7.txt item: #17 of 63 id: cord-253111-n5ywei4t author: Keck, Frédéric title: Avian preparedness: simulations of bird diseases and reverse scenarios of extinction in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore date: 2018-04-14 words: 9697 flesch: 44 summary: Gavin had first analysed the genome of fungi, then of the SARS coronavirus, then of bird flu viruses. key: cord-253111-n5ywei4t authors: Keck, Frédéric title: Avian preparedness: simulations of bird diseases and reverse scenarios of extinction in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore date: 2018-04-14 journal: J R Anthropol Inst DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.12813 sha: doc_id: 253111 cord_uid: n5ywei4t This article describes relations between humans, animals, artefacts, and pathogens in simulations of disasters, taking bird diseases in three Chinese sentinel posts as ethnographic cases. keywords: actors; animals; birds; diseases; exercise; gavin; health; hong; hong kong; humans; influenza; kong; pandemic; public; relations; ritual; simulations; singapore; taiwan; techniques; viruses cache: cord-253111-n5ywei4t.txt plain text: cord-253111-n5ywei4t.txt item: #18 of 63 id: cord-254288-duukt2wh author: Chew, Nicholas W.S. title: A multinational, multicentre study on the psychological outcomes and associated physical symptoms amongst healthcare workers during COVID-19 outbreak date: 2020-04-21 words: 4457 flesch: 39 summary: key: cord-254288-duukt2wh authors: Chew, Nicholas W.S.; Lee, Grace K.H.; Tan, Benjamin Y.Q.; Jing, Mingxue; Goh, Yihui; Ngiam, Nicholas J.H.; Yeo, Leonard L.L.; Ahmad, Aftab; Ahmed Khan, Faheem; Napolean Shanmugam, Ganesh; Sharma, Arvind K.; Komalkumar, R.N.; Meenakshi, P.V.; Shah, Kenam; Patel, Bhargesh; Chan, Bernard P.L.; Sunny, Sibi; Chandra, Bharatendu; Ong, Jonathan J.Y.; Paliwal, Prakash R.; Wong, Lily Y.H.; Sagayanathan, Renarebecca; Chen, Jin Tao; Ying Ng, Alison Ying; Teoh, Hock Luen; Tsivgoulis, Georgios; Ho, Cyrus S.; Ho, Roger C.; Sharma, Vijay K. title: A multinational, multicentre study on the psychological outcomes and associated physical symptoms amongst healthcare workers during COVID-19 outbreak date: 2020-04-21 journal: Brain Behav Immun DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.04.049 sha: doc_id: 254288 cord_uid: duukt2wh OBJECTIVE: Since the declaration of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak as pandemic, there are reports on the increased prevalence of physical symptoms observed in the general population. We investigated the association between psychological outcomes and physical symptoms among healthcare workers. keywords: anxiety; covid-19; depression; healthcare; outbreak; stress; study; symptoms; workers cache: cord-254288-duukt2wh.txt plain text: cord-254288-duukt2wh.txt item: #19 of 63 id: cord-255511-nk3iyg07 author: Chin, Wei Chien Benny title: Spatial super-spreaders and super-susceptibles in human movement networks date: 2020-10-29 words: 9073 flesch: 48 summary: For weighted degree measurements (right column), the East region has higher degree subzones; the number of high degree subzones drop in the Central region; North, North East, and West regions have relatively more higher degree subzones when compared with their non-weighted counterparts. Weekday and weekend flow networks. keywords: core; coreness; data; degree; entropy; fig; flow; human; networks; spi; subzones; sui; super; weekdays cache: cord-255511-nk3iyg07.txt plain text: cord-255511-nk3iyg07.txt item: #20 of 63 id: cord-256163-62cc135r author: Laurie Lau, Yiu Chung title: Cybercrime in cloud: Risks and responses in Hong Kong, Singapore date: 2015-06-05 words: 8453 flesch: 47 summary: According to Hong Kong authorities, in the first 6 months of 2014 the number of people arrested who are younger than 22 has risen by 67% compared to the same period in 2013. In the intermittent period between the 1950s and the early 1980s, Hong Kong was labeled a sweat-shop for the world's light manufactured goods, but with the open-door policy introduced by Communist China in 1978, Hong Kong industrialization came to an abrupt end in the early 1980s. keywords: asia; cloud; cloud computing; computing; crime; data; economy; government; hong; hong kong; kong; law; phone; police; singapore; smart; technology cache: cord-256163-62cc135r.txt plain text: cord-256163-62cc135r.txt item: #21 of 63 id: cord-257719-5s6acr7m author: Poh Ng, Lisa Fong title: The Virus That Changed My World date: 2003-12-22 words: 1510 flesch: 55 summary: Referring to the high standards of medical care and the societal measures put in place, Dr David Mansoor of WHO said that if not even Singapore could contain the outbreak, it was going to be very hard for other countries to prevent SARS from spreading (Chua 2003 I was to be part of the diagnostic team, and work began almost immediately. At Changi Airport, all in-and outbound passengers from Singapore were temperature-printed (that is, they were asked to walk through scanners that picked up body temperatures above 37.4˚C) in order to curb the export and import of SARS. keywords: months; people; sars; singapore; work cache: cord-257719-5s6acr7m.txt plain text: cord-257719-5s6acr7m.txt item: #22 of 63 id: cord-260179-g9umdcn2 author: He, Zonglin title: Meteorological factors and domestic new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in nine Asian cities: A time-series analysis date: 2020-04-18 words: 4641 flesch: 36 summary: METHOD Pearson correlation and generalized additive modeling were performed to assess the relationships between daily new COVID-19 cases and meteorological factors (daily average temperature and relative humidity) with the most updated data currently available. Generalized additive models (GAMs) with a Poisson family and logarithm link function were used to estimate the associations of daily COVID-19 new cases with average temperature and relative humidity. keywords: cases; covid-19; daily; humidity; lag; model; relative; temperature cache: cord-260179-g9umdcn2.txt plain text: cord-260179-g9umdcn2.txt item: #23 of 63 id: cord-264924-ds6jv5ek author: Tambyah, Paul A title: Severe acute respiratory syndrome from the trenches, at a Singapore university hospital date: 2004-11-30 words: 5460 flesch: 46 summary: The previous day, the Ministry of Health in Singapore had declared Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), where the first cluster of SARS infections happened, as the national SARS hospital. The September 2003 laboratory acquired SARS case 30 was a setback to our SARS containment plans. keywords: epidemic; hospital; infection; patients; sars; singapore; syndrome; transmission; virus cache: cord-264924-ds6jv5ek.txt plain text: cord-264924-ds6jv5ek.txt item: #24 of 63 id: cord-267326-355q6k6k author: Gu, Xiaoqiong title: Geospatial distribution of viromes in tropical freshwater ecosystems date: 2018-06-15 words: 8436 flesch: 35 summary: Viral communities in different reservoirs in terms of land use impact were compared and the majority of viral communities were largely conserved and stable at the family level with Myoviridae, Siphoviridae and Podoviridae as the main family level, and small differences observed in Dicistroviridae and other families (Fig. 2B) . Bacteriophage observations and evolution The marine viromes of four oceanic regions The GAAS metagenomic tool and its estimations of viral and microbial average genome size in four major biomes Globally mobile populations and the spread of emerging pathogens Prevalence and genetic diversity of waterborne pathogenic viruses in surface waters of tropical urban catchments Prevalence and genotypes of human noroviruses in tropical urban surface waters and clinical samples in Singapore Identification of viral pathogen diversity in sewage sludge by metagenome analysis Genomic analysis of uncultured marine viral communities The MIQE guidelines: minimum information for publication of quantitative real-time PCR experiments Oxygen minimum zones harbour novel viral communities with low diversity Spatial and temporal variability across life's hierarchies in the terrestrial Antarctic Human and bovine viruses in the Milwaukee River watershed: hydrologically relevant representation and relations with environmental variables Metagenomic analysis of coastal RNA virus communities Human norovirus transmission and evolution in a changing world Bacteria-phage interactions in natural environments Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes Metagenomic analysis of RNA viruses in a fresh water lake Zoonotic hepatitis E virus: classification, animal reservoirs and transmission routes Dynamic viral populations in hypersaline systems as revealed by metagenomic assembly Viruses in the desert: a metagenomic survey of viral communities in four perennial ponds of the Mauritanian Sahara Global consequences of land use A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria Cyclovirus CyCV-VN species distribution is not limited to Vietnam and extends to Viral metagenomics analysis of planktonic viruses in East Lake Diarrhea and enteric emerging viruses in HIV-infected patients Bacteriophages: update on application as models for viruses in water Unbiased detection of respiratory viruses by use of RNA sequencing-based metagenomics: a systematic comparison to a commercial PCR panel Enteric viruses and diarrhea in HIV-infected patients Ecology drives the worldwide distribution of human diseases Novoalign. keywords: areas; community; contigs; diversity; et al; human; land; metagenomics; pathogens; qpcr; reads; reservoirs; singapore; study; tributaries; virome; viruses; water cache: cord-267326-355q6k6k.txt plain text: cord-267326-355q6k6k.txt item: #25 of 63 id: cord-269939-8nvrt5y7 author: Tan, Boon Fei title: Personal View: Managing The Covid-19 Pandemic As A National Radiation Oncology Centre In Singapore date: 2020-04-23 words: 1928 flesch: 49 summary: Cancer patients, who are often immunocompromised, are at risk of contracting the disease and becoming seriously ill. At the same time, delaying treatment such as radiotherapy in cancer patients can be detrimental. keywords: cancer; covid-19; oncology; patients; singapore cache: cord-269939-8nvrt5y7.txt plain text: cord-269939-8nvrt5y7.txt item: #26 of 63 id: cord-270969-zb6ih5dl author: Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi title: Health and health-care systems in southeast Asia: diversity and transitions date: 2011-01-25 words: 5894 flesch: 42 summary: In this first paper in the Lancet Series on health in southeast Asia, we present an overview of key demographic and epidemiological changes in the region, explore challenges facing health systems, and draw attention to the potential for regional collaboration in health. The diversity of geography and history, including social, cultural, and economic diff erences, have contributed to highly divergent health status and health systems across and within countries of southeast Asia. keywords: asia; care; countries; diseases; health; population; region; regional; services; singapore; southeast; systems; world cache: cord-270969-zb6ih5dl.txt plain text: cord-270969-zb6ih5dl.txt item: #27 of 63 id: cord-272526-2fgtjouu author: Hutton, Thomas A title: Service industries, globalization, and urban restructuring within the Asia-Pacific: new development trajectories and planning responses date: 2003-05-30 words: 30175 flesch: 12 summary: Stages of urban service industry development within the Asia-Pacific The preceding narrative described important distinctions in the broader tertiarization experiences as observed within the old Atlantic core and the new core of the Pacific realm. This should include research on the 'New Economy' industries and cultural and creative activities which comprise the most recent phase of urban service industry development. keywords: advanced; asia; atlantic; central; centres; cities; city; core; development; economic; economies; economy; employment; global; growth; hong; industry; international; kong; manufacturing; metropolitan; new; pacific; pacific cities; pacific city; planning; policies; policy; production; regions; restructuring; sector; service industries; services; services growth; services production; singapore; technology; tertiarization; transformation; urban; vancouver cache: cord-272526-2fgtjouu.txt plain text: cord-272526-2fgtjouu.txt item: #28 of 63 id: cord-279861-gk8cow8k author: Glasser, John W. title: Modeling and public health emergency responses: Lessons from SARS date: 2011-01-28 words: 4362 flesch: 32 summary: As observations are most familiar to policymakers, here we endeavor to support heuristic arguments about the contribution of various public health measures to SARS outbreak control by descriptive analyses of salient observations. Another mistake was repeatedly fitting otherwise appropriate gamma distributions to times to event regardless of whether they were stationary or not, particularly onset-isolation intervals whose progressive reduction evidently contributed to SARS control. keywords: contacts; control; health; modeling; onset; sars cache: cord-279861-gk8cow8k.txt plain text: cord-279861-gk8cow8k.txt item: #29 of 63 id: cord-289006-7dv1zsp9 author: Tan, Kimberly-Anne title: Addressing Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Spine Surgery: A Rapid National Consensus Using the Delphi Method via Teleconference date: 2020-05-14 words: 4531 flesch: 36 summary: The efficacy of these swift draconian measures, guided in-part by bitter lessons learned during the 2003 SARS pandemic [3] , was reflected by the low rate of new COVID-19 cases, garnering Singapore international praise for what appeared an early flattening of the curve [4, 5] . However, given the inherently wide spectrum and time-sensitive nature in which spine pathologies tend to present, triaging spine cases while balancing the duties of a spine surgeon and managing COVID-19 cases has proven challenging (as discussed in a subsequent section). keywords: cases; covid-19; pandemic; patients; services; singapore; spinal; spine; surgeons; surgery; testing cache: cord-289006-7dv1zsp9.txt plain text: cord-289006-7dv1zsp9.txt item: #30 of 63 id: cord-289054-fh95b5n4 author: Au Yong, Phui S. title: Reducing droplet spread during airway manipulation: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore date: 2020-04-15 words: 1183 flesch: 46 summary: We identified a potential shortcoming in that none of these measures reduced the production and spread of respiratory secretions, which contain the bulk of the viral burden. In summary, these low-cost, accessible, and disposable methods can reduce contamination by respiratory secretions at the source. keywords: intubation; mask; patient; tent cache: cord-289054-fh95b5n4.txt plain text: cord-289054-fh95b5n4.txt item: #31 of 63 id: cord-290305-8u2zxsam author: Fisher, D. title: Sustained meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus control in a hyper-endemic tertiary acute care hospital with infrastructure challenges in Singapore date: 2013-09-05 words: 3390 flesch: 36 summary: MRSA infections fell midway through the implementation, with MRSA bacteraemia declining from 0.26 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.18–0.34] cases per 1000 inpatient-days in the first quarter of 2004 to 0.11 (95% CI: 0.07–0.19) cases per 1000 inpatient-days in the first quarter of 2012. More reports from across Australia, France, and the UK have also shown significant reductions in MRSA infections in the last few years. keywords: aureus; hand; hospital; hygiene; infection; mrsa; quarter; rates; staphylococcus cache: cord-290305-8u2zxsam.txt plain text: cord-290305-8u2zxsam.txt item: #32 of 63 id: cord-292767-xazsbhbw author: Tan, Boon‐Huan title: The incidence of human bocavirus infection among children admitted to hospital in Singapore date: 2008-11-21 words: 4054 flesch: 47 summary: [Choi et al., 2006; Chung et al., 2006 Chung et al., , 2007 Lee et al., 2007] , Japan [Chung et al., 2006; Sloots et al., 2006] . keywords: children; et al; hbov; human; infections; patients; singapore; study; tract cache: cord-292767-xazsbhbw.txt plain text: cord-292767-xazsbhbw.txt item: #33 of 63 id: cord-293704-tnik6sd3 author: Tey, Jeremy title: Navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak: perspectives from the radiation oncology service in singapore date: 2020-03-31 words: 3514 flesch: 48 summary: It highlights the challenges that radiation oncology departments in Singapore face and the appropriate recommended responses. It highlights the challenges that radiation oncology departments in Singapore face and the appropriate recommended responses. keywords: covid-19; oncology; outbreak; patients; radiation; radiotherapy; singapore; staff; treatment cache: cord-293704-tnik6sd3.txt plain text: cord-293704-tnik6sd3.txt item: #34 of 63 id: cord-294628-ecg13s7a author: Chia, Ming Li title: Managing COVID-19 in a Novel, Rapidly Deployable Community Isolation Quarantine Facility date: 2020-09-17 words: 3681 flesch: 49 summary: Patients who needed further investigations or were acutely ill were transferred to a general hospital via an ambulance dedicated to patients with COVID-19. This article shares the authors' experience in operating these massive-scale isolation facilities while prioritizing safety for all and ensuring holistic patient care in the face of a public health crisis and lean health care resources. keywords: care; covid-19; facility; health; hospital; isolation; monitoring; patients; singapore cache: cord-294628-ecg13s7a.txt plain text: cord-294628-ecg13s7a.txt item: #35 of 63 id: cord-294704-prizmksg author: Lateef, Fatimah title: New paradigm for protection:: The emergency ambulance services in the time of severe acute respiratory syndrome date: 2004-06-16 words: 2580 flesch: 53 summary: The history taking by paramedics now had to incorporate certain questions pertaining to risk for SARS, overseas travel, and fever. key: cord-294704-prizmksg authors: Lateef, Fatimah; Lim, Swee Han; Tan, Eng Hoe title: New paradigm for protection:: The emergency ambulance services in the time of severe acute respiratory syndrome date: 2004-06-16 journal: Prehosp Emerg Care DOI: 10.1016/j.prehos.2003.12.016 sha: doc_id: 294704 cord_uid: prizmksg Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a newly emerging and highly infectious form of atypical pneumonia with a high rate of transmission, especially among health care workers. keywords: ambulance; cases; emergency; health; paramedics; patient; sars cache: cord-294704-prizmksg.txt plain text: cord-294704-prizmksg.txt item: #36 of 63 id: cord-295514-vhymj0rw author: Lim, Peter A title: Impact of a viral respiratory epidemic on the practice of medicine and rehabilitation: Severe acute respiratory syndrome date: 2004-08-01 words: 5282 flesch: 41 summary: Care was also taken when using nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation devices for respiratory rehabilitation patients. Rehabilitation patients were not allowed to move around or interact with each other. keywords: care; contact; health; hospital; infection; medicine; patients; rehabilitation; sars; singapore; staff; syndrome; therapy cache: cord-295514-vhymj0rw.txt plain text: cord-295514-vhymj0rw.txt item: #37 of 63 id: cord-296226-ugeupo3u author: Sim, Shuzhen title: A greener vision for vector control: The example of the Singapore dengue control programme date: 2020-08-27 words: 6877 flesch: 40 summary: The World Health Organization calls for strengthening of vector control programmes in line with the Global Vector Control Response (GVCR) strategy, and many vector control programmes are transitioning to this new approach. Entomological indices and dengue case numbers are not reliable measures for assessing the long-term impact of vector control programmes because of changes in surveillance and diagnostic capabilities over time [30] . keywords: aedes; community; control; dengue; diseases; environmental; government; habitats; health; nea; population; programme; public; risk; singapore; surveillance; vector; vector control cache: cord-296226-ugeupo3u.txt plain text: cord-296226-ugeupo3u.txt item: #38 of 63 id: cord-300300-jqi4ylrx author: Lin, Ray Junhao title: From SARS to COVID‐19: the Singapore journey date: 2020-05-31 words: 2614 flesch: 43 summary: 2 Professional personnel and training of health care workers in outbreak response were expanded, with the number of infectious disease physicians rising from 11 in 2003 to 73 in 2020. Since the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to health care workers was reported on 20 January 2020, 23 twicedaily temperature monitoring was mandated for all frontline health care workers in all public hospitals. keywords: care; cases; covid-19; health; patients; public; singapore cache: cord-300300-jqi4ylrx.txt plain text: cord-300300-jqi4ylrx.txt item: #39 of 63 id: cord-309080-1r8t8yxv author: Tay, Yi Xiang title: The needs and concerns of clinical educators in radiography education in the face of COVID-19 pandemic date: 2020-10-19 words: 2533 flesch: 31 summary: During clinical training, students are supported by clinical educators who are usually registered professionals who facilitate clinical education alongside clinical and J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f academic colleagues 8 . key: cord-309080-1r8t8yxv authors: Tay, Yi Xiang; Cai, Sihui; Chow, Hwei Chuin; Lai, Christopher title: The needs and concerns of clinical educators in radiography education in the face of COVID-19 pandemic date: 2020-10-19 journal: J Med Imaging Radiat Sci DOI: 10.1016/j.jmir.2020.10.004 sha: doc_id: 309080 cord_uid: 1r8t8yxv nan It has been more than 8 months since Singapore reported its first COVID-19 case on January 23 rd , 2020 1 . keywords: covid-19; education; educators; generation; pandemic; singapore; students cache: cord-309080-1r8t8yxv.txt plain text: cord-309080-1r8t8yxv.txt item: #40 of 63 id: cord-312045-orko04fi author: Sreevalsan-Nair, Jaya title: ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL RECOVERY-PERIOD AND RECOVERY RATE ESTIMATION OF THE FIRST 1000 COVID-19 PATIENTS IN SINGAPORE date: 2020-04-22 words: 5351 flesch: 58 summary: Period P 1 during January 23-February 3, which is the period with no clinically recovered cases. This supports the overall decrease in ∆t r value from P 1 to P 3 . keywords: patients; period; recovery cache: cord-312045-orko04fi.txt plain text: cord-312045-orko04fi.txt item: #41 of 63 id: cord-318115-xo4xop3k author: Tan, Li Feng title: COVID-19 Outbreak in Nursing Homes in Singapore date: 2020-05-13 words: 517 flesch: 53 summary: Despite initial success in containing COVID-19 transmission, Singapore's rate of community transmission increased exponentially in mid-March 2020 as the pandemic spread across the world and overseas travellers returned to Singapore (Figure 1 ). Despite accounting for <0.001% of total cases in Singapore, deaths of LTCF residents due to COVID-19 account for 14% of the total fatalities. keywords: covid-19; singapore cache: cord-318115-xo4xop3k.txt plain text: cord-318115-xo4xop3k.txt item: #42 of 63 id: cord-319483-be8v9kuu author: Mukherjee, Pratik title: Epidemiology of Travel-associated Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Infection in 116 Patients, Singapore date: 2010-01-17 words: 2896 flesch: 42 summary: In June 2009, during Singapore’s pandemic influenza plan containment phase, pandemic (H1N1) 2009 was introduced into the country through imported cases. In June 2009, during Singapore's pandemic infl uenza plan containment phase, pandemic (H1N1) 2009 was introduced into the country through imported cases. keywords: case; pandemic; patients; time; travel; uenza cache: cord-319483-be8v9kuu.txt plain text: cord-319483-be8v9kuu.txt item: #43 of 63 id: cord-320945-swr3l0ur author: Liu, Zhenghong title: Dynamic emergency department response to the evolving COVID‐19 pandemic: the experience of a tertiary hospital in Singapore date: 2020-09-25 words: 3374 flesch: 43 summary: Despite extensive epidemiologic investigations, no evidence of healthcare-associated transmission of COVID-19 was detected at the ED level, and <1% of COVID-19 cases (0.23%, 3/1257) were managed outside of the designated fever areas in the ED, likely because of the broad criteria used to identify suspected COVID-19 cases. To date, Singapore has faced several waves of COVID-19 patients, each with distinct epidemiology. keywords: area; cases; covid-19; hospital; patients; response; risk cache: cord-320945-swr3l0ur.txt plain text: cord-320945-swr3l0ur.txt item: #44 of 63 id: cord-321704-jozrgcq3 author: Tan, Xin Quan title: Respiratory viral pathogens among Singapore military servicemen 2009 – 2012: epidemiology and clinical characteristics date: 2014-04-15 words: 3863 flesch: 44 summary: respiratory viral panels for the diagnosis of respiratory viral infections in adults R: A language and environment for statistical computing Prevalence and seasonality of influenza-like illness in children Outbreak of pandemic influenza A (H1N1-2009) in Singapore Effectiveness of pandemic H1N1-2009 vaccination in reducing laboratory confirmed influenza infections among military recruits in tropical Singapore Broad spectrum respiratory pathogen analysis of throat swabs from military recruits reveals interference between rhinoviruses and adenoviruses Viral etiology of influenza-like illnesses in Evaluation of an influenza-like illness case definition in the diagnosis of influenza among patients with acute febrile illness in Cambodia Seasonal variations of 15 respiratory agents illustrated by the application of a multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay Rapid multiplex nested PCR for detection of respiratory viruses Influenza-like illness sentinel surveillance in Peru Nationwide surveillance of 18 respiratory viruses in patients with influenza-like illnesses: a pilot feasibility study in the French Sentinel Network Aetiology of influenza-like illness in adults includes parainfluenzavirus type 4 Respiratory viruses and influenza-like illness: a survey in the area of Rome Dual respiratory virus infections Respiratory viral infections during the 2009-2010 winter season in Central England, UK: incidence and patterns of multiple virus co-infections Relationship between humidity and influenza A viability in droplets and implications for influenza's seasonality Fever in respiratory virus infections Clinical signs and symptoms predicting influenza infection Differing symptom patterns in early pandemic vs seasonal influenza infections Predicting influenza infections during epidemics with use of a clinical case definition Understanding the symptoms of the common cold and influenza Influenza-like illness criteria were poorly related to laboratory-confirmed influenza in a sentinel surveillance study Clinical and financial benefits of rapid detection of respiratory viruses: an outcomes study Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online submission • As influenza viruses have accounted for only between 10.1% to 53.0% of all ILI cases [15] [16] [17] , it is important to understand the contribution of other respiratory pathogens to overall morbidity and to determine their epidemiological distribution and clinical presentation. keywords: cases; fri; ili; illness; infections; influenza; studies; symptoms; viruses cache: cord-321704-jozrgcq3.txt plain text: cord-321704-jozrgcq3.txt item: #45 of 63 id: cord-321754-sy3ncwgw author: Yap, Jonathan title: Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards pandemic influenza among cases, close contacts, and healthcare workers in tropical Singapore: a cross-sectional survey date: 2010-07-28 words: 3852 flesch: 40 summary: key: cord-321754-sy3ncwgw authors: Yap, Jonathan; Lee, Vernon J; Yau, Teng Yan; Ng, Tze Pin; Tor, Phern-Chern title: Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards pandemic influenza among cases, close contacts, and healthcare workers in tropical Singapore: a cross-sectional survey date: 2010-07-28 journal: BMC Public Health DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-442 sha: doc_id: 321754 cord_uid: sy3ncwgw BACKGROUND: Effective influenza pandemic management requires understanding of the factors influencing behavioral changes. As part of the military's pandemic response plan, every serviceman was given an information pamphlet on pandemic influenza, with information about the virus and preventive measures that could be taken to reduce risk of transmission and infection. keywords: attitudes; influenza; knowledge; pandemic; practice; scores cache: cord-321754-sy3ncwgw.txt plain text: cord-321754-sy3ncwgw.txt item: #46 of 63 id: cord-322802-id9jg6v4 author: Fouda, Ayman title: The COVID-19 pandemic in Greece, Iceland, New Zealand, and Singapore: Health Policies and Lessons Learned date: 2020-08-28 words: 5464 flesch: 54 summary: A number of the measures taken are influenced by the existing health care system and its ability to respond to an influx of COVID-19 cases. In Iceland, initially testing was conducted on residents returning from high risk areas and contacts of confirmed cases. keywords: cases; countries; covid-19; greece; health; iceland; new; number; population; singapore; zealand cache: cord-322802-id9jg6v4.txt plain text: cord-322802-id9jg6v4.txt item: #47 of 63 id: cord-324345-j43rpvwk author: Leong, Hoe Nam title: SARS – My personal battle date: 2010-11-19 words: 3112 flesch: 68 summary: The next day was the weekly scheduled infectious disease round in my practicing hospital, TTSH, where infectious disease physicians from the various public hospitals in Singapore would gather. It was easily 12 midnight in Singapore time when I woke up my colleague! keywords: day; hospital; illness; patient; sars; singapore; wife cache: cord-324345-j43rpvwk.txt plain text: cord-324345-j43rpvwk.txt item: #48 of 63 id: cord-326185-gjte739i author: Mukherjee, Pratik title: Adaptability and responsiveness: keys to operational measures in a regional hospital radiology department during the current COVID-19 pandemic date: 2020-06-19 words: 6159 flesch: 46 summary: Internet Walk-Up X-ray Booth Offers Quick Scans to COVID-19 Patients Additional staff (radiologists, radiographers, nurses and other radiology department support staff) were rostered over the weekends to clear the extra workload. keywords: cases; covid-19; department; disease; hospital; infection; pandemic; patients; radiology; singapore; staff cache: cord-326185-gjte739i.txt plain text: cord-326185-gjte739i.txt item: #49 of 63 id: cord-326574-ke0iktly author: Chew, Alton Ming Kai title: Digital Health Solutions for Mental Health Disorders During COVID-19 date: 2020-09-09 words: 3761 flesch: 23 summary: These factors highlight the urgent need to scale-up and decentralize mental health services to attain a multiplier effect in the provision and accessibility of these services to combat the pandemic-driven surge in mental health disorders (9, 11) . Fortunately, several reports have demonstrated the effectiveness of digital health solutions for various applications, including addressing gaps in mental health services (12) . keywords: applications; covid-19; data; digital; disorders; health; impact; pandemic; patients; services; systems cache: cord-326574-ke0iktly.txt plain text: cord-326574-ke0iktly.txt item: #50 of 63 id: cord-326852-gm98s8a3 author: Teo, Wan-Yee title: Implications for Border Containment Strategies when COVID-19 Presents Atypically date: 2020-07-24 words: 1966 flesch: 49 summary: The events leading up to his COVID-19 diagnosis highlight the gaps of the international screening processes at the global border entry, and the potential consequences of community chain transmission through imported COVID-19 cases. The events leading up to his COVID-19 diagnosis highlight the gaps of the international screening processes at the global border entry, and the potential consequences of community chain transmission through imported COVID-19 cases. keywords: border; covid-19; patient; symptoms; throat cache: cord-326852-gm98s8a3.txt plain text: cord-326852-gm98s8a3.txt item: #51 of 63 id: cord-328501-mbwgi56x author: Pang, Junxiong title: Risk factors for febrile respiratory illness and mono-viral infections in a semi-closed military environment: a case-control study date: 2015-07-25 words: 5769 flesch: 42 summary: All known human rhinoviruses have been reported to be present in military recruits during respiratory infection Incidence, etiology, and impact Recent trends of pneumonia morbidity in US Naval personnel Keep your hands clean Influenza C virus infection in military recruits-symptoms and clinical manifestation Respiratory infections in the military Symptomatic respiratory syncytial virus infection in previously healthy young adults living in a crowded military environment Respiratory syncytial virus: an important cause of acute respiratory illness among young adults undergoing military training Viruses associated with acute respiratory infections in Royal Air Force personnel Patterns of infections with adenovirus types 4, 7 and 21 in military recruits during a 9-year survey The French Military influenza surveillance system (MISS): overview of epidemiological and virological results during four influenza seasons Novel influenza A(H1N1) outbreak among French armed forces in 2009: results of Military Influenza Surveillance System Outbreak of febrile respiratory illness caused by adenovirus at a South Korean military training facility: clinical and radiological characteristics of adenovirus pneumonia High isolation rate of adenovirus serotype 7 from South Korean military recruits with mild acute respiratory disease Acute lower respiratory tract infections in soldiers Building military influenza surveillance capacity in West Africa Outbreak of influenza A and B among military recruits: evidence from viral culture and polymerase chain reaction Outbreak of acute respiratory disease caused by human adenovirus type 7 in a military training camp in Shaanxi Outbreak of febrile respiratory illness associated with adenovirus 11a infection in a Singapore military training cAMP Differing clinical characteristics between influenza strains among young healthy adults in the tropics Respiratory viral pathogens among Singapore military servicemen 2009-2012: epidemiology and clinical characteristics Viral agents responsible for febrile respiratory illnesses among military recruits training in tropical Singapore Effectiveness of pandemic H1N1-2009 vaccination in reducing laboratory confirmed influenza infections among military recruits in tropical Singapore Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccinations against laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated infections among Singapore military personnel in 2010-2013. keywords: adenovirus; cases; factors; fri; infection; influenza; military; personnel; risk; singapore; study cache: cord-328501-mbwgi56x.txt plain text: cord-328501-mbwgi56x.txt item: #52 of 63 id: cord-329737-l8u4s73w author: Liew, Yixin title: Antimicrobial stewardship program, a vital resource for hospitals during the global outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) date: 2020-08-27 words: 1114 flesch: 37 summary: Locally, our country has placed a high emphasis on identifying and isolating COVID-19 patients in our bid to contain the spread of the virus. What is also important in outbreak situations like these is on-going engagement and education of prescribers to mitigate antibiotic misuse that tends to occur with viral epidemics / pandemics, undoing years of progress in antibiotic stewardship. keywords: asp; covid-19; hospital; singapore cache: cord-329737-l8u4s73w.txt plain text: cord-329737-l8u4s73w.txt item: #53 of 63 id: cord-329890-wg23sa1u author: Quah, Stella R. title: Public image and governance of epidemics: Comparing HIV/AIDS and SARS date: 2007-02-28 words: 9741 flesch: 45 summary: In: Plenary address by Director of HIV/AIDS, WHO at the seventh international congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific World Health Organization [WHO] position statement on condoms and HIV prevention The politics of emerging and resurgent infectious diseases. I test two related assumptions: (1) a higher perception of disease severity and personal susceptibility to SARS as compared to HIV/AIDS, contributed to the higher effectiveness of SARS prevention efforts; (2) the second assumption is two-fold: (a) in contrast to SARS, the overall negative social 'image' of HIV/AIDS as a disease associated with particular types of individuals tends to weaken people's perception of susceptibility; (b) correspondingly, low perceived susceptibility tends to discourage public support for robust preventive efforts at the community level. keywords: aids; analysis; community; disease; health; hiv; image; people; prevention; public; respondents; sars; severity; susceptibility cache: cord-329890-wg23sa1u.txt plain text: cord-329890-wg23sa1u.txt item: #54 of 63 id: cord-330464-j4o7m9ck author: Ng, Jun Jie title: Experience from a Singapore tertiary hospital with restructuring a vascular surgery practice in response to national and institutional policies during the COVID-19 pandemic date: 2020-05-23 words: 2597 flesch: 50 summary: Crucial institutional policies had to be implemented to increase 3 resources for the potential influx of COVID-19 patients. As part of our inpatient services, we provide an emergency vascular surgical consult 1 service to medical teams that are managing COVID-19 patients. keywords: cases; covid-19; patients; singapore; surgery; team cache: cord-330464-j4o7m9ck.txt plain text: cord-330464-j4o7m9ck.txt item: #55 of 63 id: cord-337516-hrcf2udq author: Dickens, Borame L. title: Modelling lockdown and exit strategies for COVID-19 in Singapore date: 2020-08-01 words: 4876 flesch: 44 summary: This is especially paramount as the number of cases beyond 365 days, although considerably lower than the initial peaks, still ranges from 6.51-513.21 cases per day for GRES strategies (Supplementary Table 3a ) and 4.94-90.03 for long term social distancing strategies (Supplementary Table 3b ) with the ongoing risk of secondary case spread from imported cases. The implementation of social distancing measures in Singapore has been progressive from 10 March with the rollout of gradually stricter recommendations and regulations [5] , leading to the implementation of a 'circuit breaker' [6] , or lockdown, on 7 April 2020 in response to rising autochthonous cases. keywords: cases; distancing; epidemic; exit; gres; infection; lockdown; measures; population; week cache: cord-337516-hrcf2udq.txt plain text: cord-337516-hrcf2udq.txt item: #56 of 63 id: cord-339070-jnmogy7s author: Yang, Lin title: Influenza associated mortality in the subtropics and tropics: Results from three Asian cities date: 2011-11-08 words: 3607 flesch: 39 summary: To our best knowledge, this is the first comparative study between Asian subtropical and tropical cities for influenza disease burden. However, geographical variations in influenza associated disease burden in the tropics and subtropics have not been explored. keywords: cities; disease; guangzhou; hong; influenza; kong; mortality; singapore cache: cord-339070-jnmogy7s.txt plain text: cord-339070-jnmogy7s.txt item: #57 of 63 id: cord-339973-kj56zi59 author: Coleman, Kristen K. title: Bioaerosol Sampling for Respiratory Viruses in Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit Network date: 2018-11-30 words: 4779 flesch: 40 summary: key: cord-339973-kj56zi59 authors: Coleman, Kristen K.; Nguyen, Tham T.; Yadana, Su; Hansen-Estruch, Christophe; Lindsley, William G.; Gray, Gregory C. title: Bioaerosol Sampling for Respiratory Viruses in Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit Network date: 2018-11-30 journal: Sci Rep DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35896-1 sha: doc_id: 339973 cord_uid: kj56zi59 As a leading global city with a high population density, Singapore is at risk for the introduction of novel biological threats. In an effort to enhance respiratory virus surveillance in Singapore, our team conducted a pilot study employing a noninvasive bioaerosol sampling method to detect respiratory viruses in Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) network. keywords: aerosol; bioaerosol; influenza; mrt; pcr; samples; sampling; singapore; study; time; virus; viruses cache: cord-339973-kj56zi59.txt plain text: cord-339973-kj56zi59.txt item: #58 of 63 id: cord-340138-u8hxyfml author: Seneviratne, Chaminda Jayampath title: The Role of Dentists in COVID-19 Is Beyond Dentistry: Voluntary Medical Engagements and Future Preparedness date: 2020-10-06 words: 3864 flesch: 42 summary: Dental practice will be considerably changed in the post-COVID-19 era. Hence, the contribution of dentists beyond dental practice in this pandemic situation will be appreciated by future generations. keywords: coronavirus; covid-19; dental; dentists; health; pandemic; sars; singapore; volunteers cache: cord-340138-u8hxyfml.txt plain text: cord-340138-u8hxyfml.txt item: #59 of 63 id: cord-341389-1o0ey67l author: Tay, Kiang Hiong title: Reconfiguring the radiology leadership team for crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic in a large tertiary hospital in Singapore date: 2020-08-11 words: 3694 flesch: 42 summary: Similar disease outbreak teams are established in all major public healthcare institutions to interface with MOH and coordinate responses and efforts in their respective institutions. Informed consent Written informed consent was not required for this study because it is a special report on radiology leadership. keywords: covid-19; disease; domain; dotf; imaging; leadership; management; outbreak; radiology; staff cache: cord-341389-1o0ey67l.txt plain text: cord-341389-1o0ey67l.txt item: #60 of 63 id: cord-348129-tph0d5fl author: De Deyn, Michelle Lee Zhi Qing title: A tale of two cities: a comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore's early strategies for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) date: 2020-06-25 words: 1147 flesch: 42 summary: After the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV) outbreak, Singapore authorities had put in place a multi-ministry taskforce and a Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (DORSCON) framework that enables the whole-of-government to respond immediately to any disease outbreak and guide interventions 5 . The COVID (Temporary Measures) Act was passed by Singapore parliament on 7 April 2020, and under the act, the government has the powers to make regulations to further prevent or control the incidence or transmission of COVID-19. keywords: government; hong; kong; singapore cache: cord-348129-tph0d5fl.txt plain text: cord-348129-tph0d5fl.txt item: #61 of 63 id: cord-348725-vksombro author: Teo, Leng Woon title: "Coping with COVID-19: perspectives of student radiographers" date: 2020-05-29 words: 2036 flesch: 48 summary: Looking forward, we hope to see better synergy between traditional lectures and e-learning in the curriculum, allowing for maximised efficiency in terms of content delivery, practical experience and student learning. The aforementioned changes impacted radiography students to a large extent. keywords: covid-19; learning; measures; radiography; singapore; students cache: cord-348725-vksombro.txt plain text: cord-348725-vksombro.txt item: #62 of 63 id: cord-349073-66ulqu11 author: Tindale, Lauren title: Transmission interval estimates suggest pre-symptomatic spread of COVID-19 date: 2020-03-06 words: 4886 flesch: 52 summary: The means are 7 (6.1, 8.0) days for early cases and 12.4 (10.8, 14.2) days for later cases. The estimated median incubation time is 5.46, with (0.025, 0.975) quantiles of (1.34, 11.1) days for early cases and 7.27 days (quantiles (1.31, 17. 3)) days for late-arising cases. keywords: cases; incubation; license; medrxiv; period; preprint; singapore; tianjin cache: cord-349073-66ulqu11.txt plain text: cord-349073-66ulqu11.txt item: #63 of 63 id: cord-350328-wu1ygt6w author: Tambyah, P. A. title: SARS: responding to an unknown virus date: 2004-07-14 words: 4862 flesch: 49 summary: In our own hospital, the National University Hospital, the largest cluster of SARS cases occurred in one of our eight-bed wards [47] where patients are deliberately placed eight to a cubicle in order to support the philosophy of healthcare financing in Singapore. The Singapore experience [41] was that three flights with symptomatic SARS patients resulted in only one transmission. keywords: cases; individuals; infection; patients; sars; singapore; syndrome; transmission; virus cache: cord-350328-wu1ygt6w.txt plain text: cord-350328-wu1ygt6w.txt