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Andrew Fong
Researcher at Alberta Health Services
Publications - 24
Citations - 9263
Andrew Fong is an academic researcher from Alberta Health Services. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 21 publications receiving 7466 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew Fong include University of Calgary.
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Coding algorithms for defining comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data.
Hude Quan,Vijaya Sundararajan,Patricia Halfon,Andrew Fong,Bernard Burnand,Jean-Christophe Luthi,L. Duncan Saunders,Cynthia A. Beck,Thomas E Feasby,William A. Ghali +9 more
TL;DR: A multistep process to develop ICD-10 coding algorithms to define Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidities in administrative data and assess the performance of the resulting algorithms found these newly developed algorithms produce similar estimates ofComorbidity prevalence in administrativeData, and may outperform existing I CD-9-CM coding algorithms.
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Utilization rates, complications and costs of percutaneous liver biopsy: a population-based study including 4275 biopsies.
TL;DR: Trends in biopsy utilization and the incidence and costs of complications from a population‐based perspective are described.
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Variation in health services utilization among ethnic populations
Hude Quan,Andrew Fong,Carolyn De Coster,Jianli Wang,Richard Musto,Tom Noseworthy,William A. Ghali +6 more
TL;DR: Use of health services in Canada varies considerably by ethnicity according to type of service and there is no evidence that members of visible minorities use general physician and specialist services less often than white people, but their utilization of hospital and cancer screening services is significantly less.
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Postoperative Complications and Mortality Following Colectomy for Ulcerative Colitis
Shanika de Silva,Christopher Ma,Marie Claude Proulx,Marcelo Crespin,Belle S. Kaplan,James Hubbard,Martin Prusinkiewicz,Andrew Fong,Remo Panaccione,Subrata Ghosh,Paul L. Beck,Anthony MacLean,Donald Buie,Gilaad G. Kaplan +13 more
TL;DR: Postoperative complications frequently occur after colectomy for UC, predominantly among elderly patients with multiple comorbidities, particularly among patients who were admitted to the hospital under emergency conditions and did not respond to medical treatment.
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Epidemiology and natural history of primary biliary cirrhosis in a Canadian health region: a population-based study.
Robert P. Myers,Abdel Aziz M. Shaheen,Andrew Fong,Kelly W. Burak,Alex F Wan,Mark G. Swain,Robert J. Hilsden,Lloyd R. Sutherland,Hude Quan +8 more
TL;DR: Survival of PBC patients is significantly lower than that of the general population, emphasizing the importance of developing new therapies for this condition.