LIEN CENTRE FOR PALLIATIVE CARE EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT Lien Centre for Palliative Care is pleased to announce that the following applications for the inaugural extramural research award were successful. We would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to the Principal Investigators (PIs) and their teams of the following research projects:
S/N PROJECT TITLE 1 Domains of Health-Related Quality of Life Important and Relevant to Cancer Palliative Care Patients in Singapore: A Preparatory Study for the Development of an Item Bank 2 Prospective Study on the quality of life of elderly patients with acute myeloid leukaemia in Singapore 3 Perspectives of mild dementia patients and their caregivers regarding end-of-life care 4 CARE PROJECT (Critically ill and Advance Restorative Endpoints)
PI Cheung Yin Bun
PI’S ORGANISATION Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Office of Clinical Sciences, DukeNUS
Chee Yen Lin
Dept of HaematoOncology, National Cancer Institute, NUHS Dept of Geriatric Medicine, SGH
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Chan Tuck Wai
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Survey on end of life and a good death: Attitudes and Perceptions of Death and Dying in Singapore Evaluation of end-of-life orthopaedic interventions – A costsavings analysis Predict the benefit of surgery on metastatic breast cancer patients in Southeast Asian setting The DPH CASEMIX Project – A quality improvement initiative at an in-patient hospice Pilot study of psychological impact of advance care planning amongst family members of patients with advanced illnesses in an in-patient hospice
Dennis Seow
Chew Mei Ying
Saminathan Suresh Nathan
Medicine/Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Division, NUH Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery, NUS
Mikael Hartman
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS
Ong Wah Ying
Dover Park Hospice
Jamie Zhou Xuelian
Dept of HaematologyOncology, National Cancer Institute, NUHS
We will be contacting the PIs shortly via email and post. Stay tuned for the next grant call announcement!
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