Updating and validating the charlson comorbidity index and score for risk adjustment in hospital discharge abstracts using data from 6 countries

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 173, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 676-682

  Quan, Hude ^a   Li, Bing ^a   Couris, Chantal M ^a   Fushimi, Kiyohide ^a   Graham, Patrick ^a   Hider, Phil ^a   Januel, Jean Marie ^a   Sundararajan, Vijaya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; International classification of diseases; Mortality; Quality of health care; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISK; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEIGHT; DATA SET; DISEASE TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY SCORE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JAPANESE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAPLEGIA; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SOLID TUMOR; SWITZERLAND; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADULT; BONE DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEX FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

ALBERTA; AUSTRALIA; CALGARY; CANADA; JAPAN; NEW ZEALAND; FRANCE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79954586808     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq433     Document Type: Article

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