Singapore Clinical Research Institute (SCRI)

Lee Chun Fan, PhD
Biostatistician

Other affiliations:
Adjunct Assistant Professor,  Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

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Web: www.scri.edu.sg

Research Interests:

• Health-related quality of life research
• Orthopaedics, in particular spinal deformities
• Statistical methods for correlated data, with applications to epidemiology and cluster randomized trials

Selected Publications:

Fong DYT, Lee CF, Cheung KMC, Cheng JCY, Ng BKW, Lam TP, Mak KH, Yip PSF, Luk KDK. A meta-analysis of the clinical effectiveness of school scoliosis screening. Spine 2010; 35:1061-71.

Luk KDK, Lee CF, Cheung KMC, Cheng JCY, Ng BKW, Lam TP, Mak KH, Yip PSF, Fong DYT. Clinical effectiveness of school screening for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A large population-based retrospective cohort study. Spine, in press.

Lee CF, Fong DYT, Cheung KMC, Cheng JCY, Ng BKW, Lam TP, Mak KH, Yip PSF, Luk KDK. Costs of school scoliosis screening: A large population-based study. Spine, in press.

Lee CF, Fong DYT, Cheung KMC, Cheng JCY, Ng BKW, Lam TP, Mak KH, Yip PSF, Luk KDK. Referral criteria for school scoliosis screening: Assessment and recommendations based on a large longitudinally followed cohort. Spine, in press.

Lam KF, Yu PLH, Lee CF. Kernel method for the estimation of the distribution function and the mean with auxiliary information in ranked set sampling. Environmetrics 2002; 13:397-406.

Ng R, Lee CF, Wong NS, Luo N, Yap YS, Lo SK, Chia WK, Yee A, Krishna L, Goh C, Cheung YB. Measurement properties of the English and Chinese versions of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Breast (FACT-B) in Asian breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 2012; 131(2):619-625. DOI:10.1007/s10549-011-1764-z.

Lee CF, Cheng ACO, Fong DYT. Eyes or subjects: Are ophthalmic randomized controlled trials properly designed and analyzed? Ophthalmology, in press. DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.09.025.

Dharani R, Lee CF, Thian ZX, Drury VB, Ngo C, Sandar Mya, Wong TY, Finkelstain EA, Saw SM. Comparison of measurements of time outdoors and light levels as risk factors for myopia in young Singapore children. Eye, in press.

Lee CF, Ng R, Wong NS, Luo N, Yap YS, Lo SK, Chia WK, Yee A, Krishna L, Wong C, Goh C, Cheung YB. Measurement properties of the 8-item abbreviated measure Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Breast Symptom Index (FBSI) and comparison with its 37-item parent measure. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, in press.