Evaluation of two competing methods for calculating Charlson's comorbidity index when analyzing short-term mortality using administrative data

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 903-908

  Cleves, Mario A ^a   Sanchez, Nena ^b   Draheim, Mayumi ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Case mix; Comorbidity; Illness severity; Risk adjustment; Short term mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CALCULATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STROKE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0030750913     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00091-7     Document Type: Article

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