title: Health Promotion Board-Ministry of Health clinical practice guidelines: functional screening for older adults in the community.
abstract: The Health Promotion Board (HPB) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) publish clinical practice guidelines to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based guidance on managing important medical conditions. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations from the guidelines) from the HPB-MOH clinical practice guidelines on Functional Screening for Older Adults in the Community, for the information of readers of the Singapore Medical Journal. Chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Health Promotion Board website (http://www.hpb.gov.sg/uploadedFiles/HPB_Online/Publications/CPGFunctionalscreening.pdf). The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.
authors.affiliation: National University Hospital, National University of Singapore, Singapore. shyamala_thilagaratnam@hpb.gov.sg
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mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods; D012846:Singapore