Stroke: The Elixhauser Index for comorbidity adjustment of in-hospital case fatality

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 283-287

  Zhu, Haifeng ^a   Hill, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FATALITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALBERTA; ALGORITHMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STROKE;

EID: 50549104919     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000318278.41347.94     Document Type: Article

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