A user's guide to selecting a comorbidity index for clinical research

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 849-855

  Hall, Stephen F ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Measurement; Outcome; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; LOG RANK TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33745678298     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.11.013     Document Type: Article

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