Comorbidity Measures for Use with Administrative Data

Medical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 8-27

  Elixhauser, Anne ^a   Steiner, Claudia ^b   Harris, D Robert ^c   Coffey, Rosanna M ^d  

^a UNITED BIOSOURCE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Health Care Policy and Research   (United States)

^c WESTAT   (United States)

^d MEDSTAT GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Comorbidity; Hospital resources; In hospital mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CALIFORNIA; COMORBIDITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031613172     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199801000-00004     Document Type: Article

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