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| Albert WongSummaryAffiliation: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Using molecular epidemiology to trace transmission of nosocomial norovirus infectionFaizel H A Sukhrie
Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Clin Microbiol 49:602-6. 2011..We concluded that the use of sequence-based typing should be considered for identifying hidden nosocomial clusters of NoV infections within health care settings...
Medical innovation and age-specific trends in health care utilization: findings and implicationsAlbert Wong
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Methodology and Information Services, Department of Statistics and Mathematical Modeling, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Soc Sci Med 74:263-72. 2012..For hospital care utilization, this process might well be accelerated by advances in medical technology...
Exploring the influence of proximity to death on disease-specific hospital expenditures: a carpaccio of red herringsAlbert Wong
Department of Statistics and Mathematical Modeling, Expertise Centre for Methodology and Information Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Health Econ 20:379-400. 2011..Considering the large variation in the degree to which proximity to death and age matter for each specific disease, we may speak not only of age as a 'red herring' but also of a 'carpaccio of red herrings'...
Predictors of long-term care utilization by Dutch hospital patients aged 65+Albert Wong
Department of Statistics and Mathematical Modeling, Expertise Centre for Methodology and Information Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, PO Box 1, 3720 BA, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 10:110. 2010..Here, we report our identification of predictors of long-term care utilization in a cohort of hospital patients aged 65+ following their discharge from hospital discharge and who, prior to hospital admission, were living at home...
Longitudinal administrative data can be used to examine multimorbidity, provided false discoveries are controlled forAlbert Wong
Department of Statistics and Mathematical Modeling, Centre for Methodology and Information Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Clin Epidemiol 64:1109-17. 2011..This article presents methods for using administrative data to study multimorbidity in hospitalized individuals and indicates how the findings can be used to gain a deeper understanding of hospital multimorbidity...
The disabling effect of diseases: a study on trends in diseases, activity limitations, and their interrelationshipsNancy Hoeymans
Center for Public Health Forecasting, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Am J Public Health 102:163-70. 2012..We studied the association between chronic diseases and activity limitations in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2008...
Trends in activity limitations: the Dutch older population between 1990 and 2007Coen H van Gool
Center for Public Health Forecasting, National Institute for Public Health and Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Int J Epidemiol 40:1056-67. 2011..The objective of this study was to give best estimates of the trend in the prevalence of activity limitations among the non-institutionalized population aged 55-84 years over the period 1990-2007 in The Netherlands...
Standardizing the inclusion of indirect medical costs in economic evaluationsPieter H M van Baal
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Expertise Centre for Methodology and Information Services, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Pharmacoeconomics 29:175-87. 2011....
