Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of Gambling Disorders

Lee KMT, Chan HN, Cheah B, Gentica GFC, Guo S, Lim HK, Lim YC, Noorul F, Tan HS, Teo P, Yeo HN
Correspondence: Dr Thomas Lee Kae Meng, leekmthomas@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has published clinical practice guidelines on Management of Gambling Disorders to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based guidance on the management of gambling disorders. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations from the guidelines) from the MOH clinical practice guidelines on Management of Gambling Disorders 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=26136). 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.

Singapore Med J 2011; 52(6): 456-459