Thomas Wee
Biographic Data
| ID | 6774645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Wee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Wee |
| SIGNATURE | WEE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University Health System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Delivering Person-Centric, Seamless Care through the Patient Appointment Consolidation (PAC) Programme
Introduction: The prevalence of patients with multiple chronic diseases is rising both globally and in Singapore. Our healthcare systems, currently centred around acute hospitals, are largely configured to manage individual diseases rather than multimorbidity, resulting in such patients seeking care from multiple specialists. This can result in care fragmentation, duplication of efforts, increased healthcare cost, long waiting times, and delayed …
Understanding the psychosocial, behavioural and environmental factors behind frequent hospital admissions
Introduction: Increasing numbers of hospital admissions is a complex issue of significant concern to health systems around the world, as a significant cost driver of healthcare is inpatient cost[i]. In Singapore, patients who are frequently admitted to hospitals, although comprising a small number, account for a disproportionately high use of scarce healthcare resources. While national efforts are currently underway to provide care planning and c…
The Nuhs-frontier Family Medicine Clinic
Objectives: Singapore's healthcare landscape comprises public and private sector providers. Care in public sector institutions is heavily subsidised. The public polyclinics, comprising 14% of our primary care doctors, manage 45% of the country's chronic disease load in primary care. This disproportionate distribution resulted in an under-utilisation of our private physician resource and strained the public sector. An innovative public-private par…
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The Nuhs-frontier Family Medicine Clinic
Objectives: Singapore's healthcare landscape comprises public and private sector providers. Care in public sector institutions is heavily subsidised. The public polyclinics, comprising 14% of our primary care doctors, manage 45% of the country's chronic disease load in primary care. This disproportionate distribution resulted in an under-utilisation of our private physician resource and strained the public sector. An innovative public-private par…
Delivering Person-Centric, Seamless Care through the Patient Appointment Consolidation (PAC) Programme
Introduction: The prevalence of patients with multiple chronic diseases is rising both globally and in Singapore. Our healthcare systems, currently centred around acute hospitals, are largely configured to manage individual diseases rather than multimorbidity, resulting in such patients seeking care from multiple specialists. This can result in care fragmentation, duplication of efforts, increased healthcare cost, long waiting times, and delayed …
Understanding the psychosocial, behavioural and environmental factors behind frequent hospital admissions
Introduction: Increasing numbers of hospital admissions is a complex issue of significant concern to health systems around the world, as a significant cost driver of healthcare is inpatient cost[i]. In Singapore, patients who are frequently admitted to hospitals, although comprising a small number, account for a disproportionately high use of scarce healthcare resources. While national efforts are currently underway to provide care planning and c…
Business (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · General partnership (2 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (2 works) · Ambulatory care (1 work) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (1 work)