Albert Wong

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Affiliation: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Country: The Netherlands

Publications

  1. ncbi Using molecular epidemiology to trace transmission of nosocomial norovirus infection
    Faizel 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
  2. ncbi Medical innovation and age-specific trends in health care utilization: findings and implications
    Albert 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
  3. ncbi Exploring the influence of proximity to death on disease-specific hospital expenditures: a carpaccio of red herrings
    Albert 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
  4. ncbi 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
  5. ncbi Longitudinal administrative data can be used to examine multimorbidity, provided false discoveries are controlled for
    Albert 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
  6. ncbi The disabling effect of diseases: a study on trends in diseases, activity limitations, and their interrelationships
    Nancy 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
  7. ncbi Trends in activity limitations: the Dutch older population between 1990 and 2007
    Coen 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
  8. ncbi Standardizing the inclusion of indirect medical costs in economic evaluations
    Pieter 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

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Publications8

  1. ncbi Using molecular epidemiology to trace transmission of nosocomial norovirus infection
    Faizel 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...
  2. ncbi Medical innovation and age-specific trends in health care utilization: findings and implications
    Albert 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...
  3. ncbi Exploring the influence of proximity to death on disease-specific hospital expenditures: a carpaccio of red herrings
    Albert 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'...
  4. ncbi 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...
  5. ncbi Longitudinal administrative data can be used to examine multimorbidity, provided false discoveries are controlled for
    Albert 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...
  6. ncbi The disabling effect of diseases: a study on trends in diseases, activity limitations, and their interrelationships
    Nancy 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...
  7. ncbi Trends in activity limitations: the Dutch older population between 1990 and 2007
    Coen 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...
  8. ncbi Standardizing the inclusion of indirect medical costs in economic evaluations
    Pieter 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
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