title: Ministry of Health clinical practice guidelines: Chronic Hepatitis B Infection.
abstract: The Ministry of Health (MOH) publishes clinical practice guidelines on Chronic Hepatitis B Infection 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 MOH clinical practice guidelines on Chronic Hepatitis B Infection, 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 Ministry of Health website (http://www.moh.gov.sg/mohcorp/publications.aspx?id=26108). 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: chow.wan.cheng@sgh.com.sg
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Chow
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chong
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: K Y L
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Leo
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Loy
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Lui
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Siew
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Teo
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yeo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D055552:Infectious Disease Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D012846:Singapore