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The provision of care foods has emerged as a significant focus in Hong Kong, owing to the collaborative endeavors of diverse industry stakeholders in recent years. With the Hong Kong government allocating funds to subsidize the procurement of care foods within NGO settings, individuals residing in r...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the global population’s physical, mental, and behavioral well-being through complex, multilateral mechanisms. Understanding the phenomena of ‘long-COVID’ is important for our clinical management of these patients and the preparedness for futur...

Heart failure (HF) significantly impacts about 1.2% of the population in Hong Kong, leading to approximately 20,000 related hospitalizations annually. If left untreated, the 5-year mortality rate for HF can exceed 50%. Guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) is crucial, as it has been proven to re...

Hong Kong's high life expectancy is juxtaposed with its relatively low ranking in the quality of death index. While recent improvements have been made, Hong Kong still lags behind neighbouring regions such as Taiwan and Singapore in terms of home deaths and legislation on advance medical directives ...

Advances in reperfusion therapy greatly improve outcome of acute ischemic stroke. Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) became current standard treatment for stroke with large vessels occlusion. With the latest evidence, the indication of EVT keep expanding regarding the time window and size of infarct co...

Nursing has evolved, with the change in nursing landscape; nurses are capable to contribute more. In traditional practice, only doctors are allowed to perform certain tasks, such as intravenous cannulation. Comparing to our current nursing practices, nursing has come a long way in term of providing ...

Nurse clinic service in Hong Kong was first developed in year 2000 in the Hospital Authority (HA). The nurse clinic was introduced at the time with the aims to improve patients’ access to care and clinical outcomes. In 2016, there was a review on the nurse clinics which later on were transformed i...

Dysphagia is estimated to affect 8% of the general population in the world. Texture modified foods and thickened drinks (i.e. Care Food) are commonly used in the management of patients with dysphagia. The International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) was founded with the mission to...

The pathologic diagnosis of tumors involves many aspects of analysis and interpretation of plenties biomakers, however, the accuracy of pathologic diagnosis is limited by a shortage of differences in pathologists' diagnostic skill, and the availability of ancillary studies. We have developed an arti...