The estimation power of alternative comorbidity indices

Value in Health

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 946-955

  Baser, Onur ^a,d   Palmer, Liisa ^b   Stephenson, Judith ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Thomson Healthcare   (United States)

^c HEALTHCORE INC   (United States)

^d Thomson Healthcare   (United States)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Health care costs; Regression analysis; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ALMOTRIPTAN; ELETRIPTAN; FROVATRIPTAN; NARATRIPTAN; RIZATRIPTAN; SUMATRIPTAN; SUMATRIPTAN SUCCINATE; ZOLMITRIPTAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY COMORBIDITY INDEX; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE SCORE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIGRAINE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 51249097814     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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