Improved comorbidity adjustment for predicting mortality in Medicare populations

Health Services Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1103-1120

  Schneeweiss, Sebastian ^a   Wang, Philip S ^a,b   Avorn, Jerry ^a   Glynn, Robert J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Claims data; Comorbidity adjustment; Confounding (epidemiology); Elderly; Health services epidemiology; Methods; Prediction

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NEW JERSEY; PENNSYLVANIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042858411     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.00165     Document Type: Article

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