Investigator Initiated Research

We support research that is initiated by CGH staff by offering consultative support from research question formulation to data analysis as primary investigators or co-investigators.

Our key areas of research include outcomes research, health economics, implementation science, discrete event simulation, optimisation modelling, predictive analytics.

Together with our partners from CGH and other SingHealth institutions, we have successfully secured research funding support from several external grants which include NMRC National Innovation Challenge, NMRC Population Health Research Grant, Singapore Millenia Foundation, SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medicine (AM) Research Grant, SingHealth Population-based Unified Learning System for Enhanced and Sustainable Health Grant, etc.

Examples of past investigator Initiated Projects

• A prospective randomized double-blind study on the clinical impact of oral nutritional supplement in community-dwelling elderly in Singapore
• Development of predictive model for specialist outpatient clinic no show
• Dynamic prediction of readmission risk for heart failure patients towards timely resource-efficient care delivery in the community
• Factors associated with inappropriate attendances at CGH A&E Factors influencing the choice of food among working adults in a multi-cultural country
• Factors influencing one year readmission rates of heart failure patients Incentive mechanisms for patient routing to control crowding in the emergency department
• Optimal allocation of junior doctors at CGH accident and emergency department
• Perceived medical and psychosocial needs of Asian breast cancer patients and their caregivers at diagnosis as factors influencing quality of life