Reliability of a comorbidity measure: The Index of Co-Existent Disease (ICED)

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1011-1016

  Imamura, Kyoko ^a,c   McKinnon, Morag ^a   Middleton, Robert ^b   Black, Nick ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Baxter Limited   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0030848668     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00128-5     Document Type: Article

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