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List of works by Hwee Lin Wee

A brief assessment of physical functioning for prostate cancer patients

scientific article published on June 18, 2010

A call for action to improve access to care and treatment for patients with rare diseases in the Asia-Pacific region.

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A community-based validation study of the short-form 36 version 2 Philippines (Tagalog) in two cities in the Philippines.

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A qualitative study on Singaporean women's views towards breast cancer screening and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) gene testing to guide personalised screening strategies

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A scoring model for predicting survival following primary tumour resection in stage IV colorectal cancer patients with unresectable metastasis.

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

A stratification approach using logit-based models for confounder adjustment in the study of continuous outcomes

scientific article published in January 2017

Adherence to premixed insulin in a prefilled pen compared with a vial/syringe in people with diabetes in Singapore.

scientific article published on 7 June 2014

An update on cardiovascular disease epidemiology in South East Asia. Rationale and design of the LIFE course study in CARdiovascular disease Epidemiology (LIFECARE)

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Are Asians comfortable with discussing death in health valuation studies? A study in multi-ethnic Singapore

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Asian study of clopidogrel (ASCLOP) responsiveness: the contributions of genetic and non-genetic factors.

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Assessing differences in utility scores: a comparison of four widely used preference-based instruments.

scientific article published in July 2007

Association between helplessness, disability, and disease activity with health-related quality of life among rheumatoid arthritis patients in a multiethnic Asian population.

scientific article published on 9 January 2014

Association of anemia and mineral and bone disorder with health-related quality of life in Asian pre-dialysis patients.

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

Association of body mass index with Short-Form 36 physical and mental component summary scores in a multiethnic Asian population.

scientific article published on 9 February 2010

Association of drug exposure with toxicity and clinical response in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients receiving an attenuated dosing regimen of sunitinib

scientific article published on 13 December 2014

Associations between complications and health-related quality of life in individuals with diabetes.

scientific article published on 25 March 2013

Associations between disease awareness and health-related quality of life in a multi-ethnic Asian population.

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Associations of lifestyle factors, disease history and awareness with health-related quality of life in a Thai population.

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Attitudes on warfarin pharmacogenetic testing in Chinese patients and public

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Audit of Diabetes-Dependent Quality of Life (ADDQoL) [Chinese Version for Singapore] questionnaire: reliability and validity among Singaporeans with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

scientific article published in January 2010

Cohort Profile: LIFE course study in CARdiovascular disease Epidemiology (LIFECARE)

Comparison of EuroQol-5D and short form-6D utility scores in multiethnic Asian patients with psoriatic arthritis: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 15 March 2013

Cost Related to Dementia in the Young and the Impact of Etiological Subtype on Cost.

scientific article published on 29 September 2015

Cost-effectiveness of an adherence-enhancing intervention for gout based on real-world data

scientific article published on 16 December 2018

Cost-effectiveness of aspirin adjuvant therapy in early stage colorectal cancer in older patients.

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Could Values and Social Structures in Singapore Facilitate Attainment of Patient-Focused, Cultural, and Linguistic Competency Standards in a Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot?

scientific article published in November 2015

Current and future economic burden of diabetes among working-age adults in Asia: conservative estimates for Singapore from 2010-2050.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Determinants of individuals' participation in integrated chronic disease screening in Singapore

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Development and evaluation of a quality of life measurement scale in English and Chinese for family caregivers of patients with advanced cancers

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Development of a Smiling Touchscreen multimedia program for HRQoL assessment in subjects with varying levels of literacy.

scientific article published in September 2006

Do chronic disease patients value generic health states differently from individuals with no chronic disease? A case of a multicultural Asian population.

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Domains of health-related quality of life important and relevant to multiethnic English-speaking Asian systemic lupus erythematosus patients: a focus group study

scientific article published in June 2011

Economic burden of Parkinson's disease in Singapore.

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Economic burden of adverse drug reactions and potential for pharmacogenomic testing in Singaporean adults

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Erratum to: 'Current and future economic burden of diabetes among working-age adults in Asia: conservative estimates for Singapore from 2010-2050'.

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Establishing the thematic framework for a diabetes-specific health-related quality of life item bank for use in an english-speaking asian population

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Estimating the lifetime economic burden of Parkinson's disease in Singapore.

scientific article published on 15 September 2012

Factor structure of the Singapore English version of the KINDL children quality of life questionnaire

scientific article published on 19 January 2007

Factors associated with diabetes-related distress over time among patients with T2DM in a tertiary hospital in Singapore.

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Factors associated with psychological distress, behavioral impact and health-related quality of life among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

scientific article published on 24 January 2015

Feasibility of representing adherence to blood glucose monitoring through visualizations: A pilot survey study among healthcare workers

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Functional status mediates the association between peripheral neuropathy and health-related quality of life in individuals with diabetes

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Health status of older adults with Type 2 diabetes mellitus after aerobic or resistance training: a randomised trial.

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Health-Related Quality of Life after Total Knee Replacement or Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty in an Urban Asian Population

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Health-related quality of life of patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Singapore

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

How is the most severe health state being valued by the general population?

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Humanistic and economic outcomes of pharmacist-provided medication review in the community-dwelling elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Mapping the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living Inventory to the Health Utility Index Mark III

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Mapping the Shah-modified Barthel Index to the Health Utility Index Mark III by the Mean Rank Method

scientific article published on 27 July 2019

Mean Rank, Equipercentile, and Regression Mapping of World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief (WHOQOL-BREF) to EuroQoL 5 Dimensions 5 Levels (EQ-5D-5L) Utilities

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Measurement equivalence of the English, Chinese and Malay versions of the World Health Organization quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaires

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Modelling the cost-effectiveness of pharmacist-managed anticoagulation service for older adults with atrial fibrillation in Singapore.

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

Optimizing the design of visual analogue scales for assessing quality of life: a semi-qualitative study among Chinese-speaking Singaporeans

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Overexpression of Tyro3 and its implications on hepatocellular carcinoma progression.

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Patient preferences and predicted relative uptake for targeted therapies in metastatic colorectal cancer: a discrete choice experiment

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Registry-Based Studies of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a Systematic Review

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Performance of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Models: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Predicting preference-based SF-6D index scores from the SF-8 health survey.

scientific article published on 10 October 2012

Prevalence of and factors associated with primary medication non-adherence in chronic disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Professional Oversight of Emergency-Use Interventions and Monitoring Systems: Ethical Guidance From the Singapore Experience of COVID-19

scientific article published in 2022

Progression of Parkinson's disease as evaluated by Hoehn and Yahr stage transition times

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Psychometric Properties of the Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID) Instrument in Singapore

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Psychometric analysis of an eating behaviour questionnaire for an overweight and obese Chinese population in Singapore.

scientific article published on 2 March 2016

Psychometric properties and population norms of the positive mental health instrument in a representative multi-ethnic Asian population.

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Quality of life domains important and relevant to family caregivers of advanced cancer patients in an Asian population: a qualitative study.

scientific article published on 25 October 2014

Quantifying the natural history of breast cancer

scientific article published on October 2013

Reliability and validity of the English (Singapore) and Chinese (Singapore) versions of the Short-Form 36 version 2 in a multi-ethnic Urban Asian population in Singapore

scientific article published on March 9, 2013

Right-Site Care Programme with a community-based family medicine clinic in Singapore: secondary data analysis of its impact on mortality and healthcare utilisation

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Risk communication in clinical trials: a cognitive experiment and a survey

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Risk factors and direct medical cost of early versus late unplanned readmissions among diabetes patients at a tertiary hospital in Singapore.

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Role of sunitinib and SU12662 on dermatological toxicities in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients: in vitro, in vivo, and outcomes investigation

scientific article published on 4 December 2013

Routine Primary Prophylaxis for Febrile Neutropenia with Biosimilar Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor (Nivestim) or Pegfilgrastim Is Cost Effective in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients undergoing Curative-Intent R-CHOP Chemotherapy

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Selegiline use is associated with a slower progression in early Parkinson’s disease as evaluated by Hoehn and Yahr Stage transition times

scientific article published on December 14, 2010

Sensitivity of three widely used questionnaires for measuring psychological distress among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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Short-term strength and balance training does not improve quality of life but improves functional status in individuals with diabetic peripheral neuropathy: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Tackling the 3 Big Challenges Confronting Health Technology Assessment Development in Asia: A Commentary

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

The EQ-5D (Euroqol) is a valid generic instrument for measuring quality of life in patients with dyspepsia

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The Short Form 36 English and Chinese versions were equivalent in a multiethnic Asian population.

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

The association of body mass index with health-related quality of life: an exploratory study in a multiethnic Asian population.

scientific article published in March 2008

The impact of axial spondyloarthritis on quality of life (QoL): a comparison with the impact of moderate to end-stage chronic kidney disease on QoL

scientific article published on 05 June 2018

The impact of diabetes mellitus and other chronic medical conditions on health-related Quality of Life: is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?

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The influence of ethnicity on health-related quality of life in diabetes mellitus: a population-based, multiethnic study.

scientific article published in May 2006

Understanding domains of health-related quality of life concerns of Singapore Chinese patients with advanced cancer: a qualitative analysis

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Usefulness of the Audit of Diabetes-Dependent Quality-of-Life (ADDQoL) questionnaire in patients with diabetes in a multi-ethnic Asian country.

scientific article published in January 2006

Utility of the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale in gout: a prospective study.

scientific article published on 02 December 2016

Utilizing distributional analytics and electronic records to assess timeliness of inpatient blood glucose monitoring in non-critical care wards

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Validation of the Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire in 5 and 6 Year-Old Children: The GUSTO Cohort Study

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Validation of the English version of the KINDL generic children's health-related quality of life instrument for an Asian population--results from a pilot test.

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Validity and reliability of the Gout Impact Scale in a multi-ethnic Asian population

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Validity of the Thai EQ-5D in an occupational population in Thailand.

scientific article published on 25 August 2012

Validity, feasibility and acceptability of time trade-off and standard gamble assessments in health valuation studies: a study in a multiethnic Asian population in Singapore.

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Willingness-to-pay and preferences for warfarin pharmacogenetic testing in Chinese warfarin patients and the Chinese general public

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Women's preferences, willingness-to-pay, and predicted uptake for single-nucleotide polymorphism gene testing to guide personalized breast cancer screening strategies: a discrete choice experiment

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