Fiona Kong
City University of Hong Kong
11 Papers
16 Citations
Fiona Kong is an academic researcher from City University of Hong Kong. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Health education. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 10 publications. Previous affiliations of Fiona Kong include Queensland Health & University of Queensland.
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Papers
Social media in Ebola outbreak.
TL;DR: Positive results for social media use in effective surveillance response mechanisms are shown for improving the detection, preparedness and response of the outbreak – as a complement to traditional, filed, work-based surveillance approach.
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Australia's notifiable diseases status, 2005: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
Rhonda Owen,Paul W Roche,Kirsty Hope,Keflemariam Yohannes,April Roberts,Conan Liu,Stefan Stirzaker,Fiona Kong,Mark Bartlett,Basil Donovan,Iain J. East,Gerard J Fitzsimmons,Ann McDonald,Peter McIntyre,Robert Menzies +14 more
TL;DR: In 2005, Australia reported a total of 125,461 cases of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System: an increase of 10% on the number of notifications in 2004.
Indonesian Hajj Cohorts and Mortality in Saudi Arabia from 2004 to 2011
Masdalina Pane,Fiona Kong,Tri Bayu Purnama,Kathryn Glass,Sholah Imari,Gina Samaan,Hitoshi Oshitani +6 more
TL;DR: The mortality rate from 2004 to 2011 ranged from 149 to 337 per 100,000 Hajj pilgrims, equivalent to the actual number of deaths ranging between 501 and 531 cases, and the top two mortality causes were attributable to diseases of the circulatory and respiratory systems.
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A hierarchical spatial modelling approach to investigate MRSA transmission in a tertiary hospital
Fiona Kong,Fiona Kong,David L. Paterson,David L. Paterson,Michael Whitby,Michael Coory,Archie C. A. Clements +6 more
TL;DR: There was only weak evidence to suggest that MRSA is spatially clustered within the hospital, and the presence of an infected patient in the same cubicle two weeks prior may support the importance of environmental contamination as a source of MRSA transmission.
Do staffing and workload levels influence the risk of new acquisitions of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a well-resourced intensive care unit?
Fiona Kong,Fiona Kong,David Cook,David L. Paterson,David L. Paterson,Michael Whitby,Archie C. A. Clements +6 more
TL;DR: The risks posed by high workloads may have been mitigated by good compliance with infection control measures, nurse training and adequate staffing ratios in the ICU, and staffing policies and the infection control practices in theICU do not need to be modified to address the rate of new MRSA acquisitions.
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