title: Academy of medicine, Singapore-Ministry of Health clinical practice guidelines: management of food allergy.
abstract: The Academy of Medicine, Singapore (AMS) 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 AMS-MOH clinical practice guidelines on the Management of Food Allergy, 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 Academy of Medicine website: http://www.ams.edu.sg/guidelines.asp#foodallergy. 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: Academy of Medicine, Singapore-Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines Workgroup on Management of Food Allergy. bee_wah_lee@nuhs.edu.sg
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mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000592:standards*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000628:therapy*; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012846:Singapore