Practical considerations on the use of the Charlson comorbidity index with administrative data bases

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1429-1433

  D'Hoore, William ^a   Bouckaert, André ^b   Tilquin, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Comorbidity; Ischemic heart disease; Logistic regression; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030472186     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(96)00271-5     Document Type: Article

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