Sarah Tham

ORCID: 0000-0001-5310-9585
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Research Areas
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Digital literacy in education
  • Topic Modeling
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Breast Lesions and Carcinomas
  • Aortic aneurysm repair treatments
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Gastrointestinal Bleeding Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
  • Educational Games and Gamification
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies
  • E-Learning and Knowledge Management
  • Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
  • Augmented Reality Applications
  • Mobile Learning in Education
  • Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies
  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
  • Diabetes Management and Education
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine

National University Hospital
2024-2025

Sengkang General Hospital
2022-2023

SingHealth
2022-2023

Singapore General Hospital
2023

National University of Singapore
2018-2019

University of Kansas
2017

Burnout, stress and overwork are highly prevalent amongst junior training physicians worldwide, which explains the widespread phenomenon of leaving field organised protests/strikes for better working conditions. Back in 2003, mandatory duty hour restriction was a landmark intervention rolled out by Accreditation Council Graduate Medical Education that formally mandated limiting hours trainee residents to no more than 80 h per week, not exceeding 24-h shifts with 6 added education handover....

10.1177/14782715241273739 article EN The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 2024-08-13

We aimed to automate routine extraction of clinically relevant unstructured information from uro-oncological histopathology reports by applying rule-based and machine learning (ML)/deep (DL) methods develop an oncology focused natural language processing (NLP) algorithm.Our algorithm employs a combination approach support vector machines/neural networks (BioBert/Clinical BERT), is optimised for accuracy. randomly extracted 5772 histology 2008 2018 electronic health records (EHRs) split the...

10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14793 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Heliyon 2023-03-24

Diabetes mellitus is a major public health issue in Singapore. To shape healthcare policies for the primary prevention of diabetes, it crucial to understand Singaporeans' knowledge, attitudes and practices related diabetes its prevention. This study aimed assess lifestyles individuals without diabetes.A cross-sectional household survey was performed between 31 January 3 February 2019 examine diabetes. Inclusion criteria participants included: 1) Singaporeans/permanent residents, 2) 30 64...

10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.v48n8p247 article EN Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore 2019-08-15

The purpose of our study was to discover who researches functional literacy. This situated within a larger systematic literature review. We searched seven electronic databases and identified 90 sources answer question regarding how literacy is defined conceptualized as well the specific pertinent this paper. An analytic template guided data collection. analysis completed by using spreadsheet examine two levels institutional affiliation: 1) institution such university or government unit, 2)...

10.1353/clj.2017.0003 article EN Community Literacy Journal 2017-01-01

The purpose of our study was to discover who researches functional literacy. This situated within a larger systematic literature review. We searched seven electronic databases and identified 90 sources answer question regarding how literacy is defined conceptualized as well the specific pertinent this paper. An analytic template guided data collection. analysis completed by using spreadsheet examine two levels institutional affiliation: 1) institution such university or government unit, 2)...

10.25148/clj.11.2.009133 article EN Community Literacy Journal 2017-01-01

Purpose: Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is almost always considered fatal without open surgical or endovascular repair. We report a case that has defied this norm and explore the possible factors involved in exceedingly rare outcome. Case Report: An 87 year old gentleman presented with an acute ruptured AAA left retroperitoneal hematoma. He was counseled for emergent repair, but opted conservative management instead. remained well at time of writing, 13 months from rupture,...

10.1177/15266028221119311 article EN Journal of Endovascular Therapy 2022-08-24

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Clinical information is primarily stored digitally as free text in electronic health records (EHRs) at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). Traditional extraction of registry data fields manual, laborious and prone to errors. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> We aimed automate routine clinically relevant unstructured from uro-oncological histopathology reports by applying rule-based machine learning (ML) /deep (DL) methods develop an oncology focused natural...

10.2196/preprints.37332 preprint EN 2022-02-16
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