Coding algorithms for defining comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data

Medical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1130-1139

  Quan, Hude ^a   Sundararajan, Vijaya ^b   Halfon, Patricia ^c   Fong, Andrew ^a   Burnand, Bernard ^c   Luthi, Jean Christophe ^c   Saunders, L Duncan ^d   Beck, Cynthia A ^a,e   Feasby, Thomas E ^d   Ghali, William A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Victorian Department of Human Services   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Comorbidity; ICD 10; ICD 9; Risk adjustment outcome

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CANADA; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 27744568384     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000182534.19832.83     Document Type: Article

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