Developing a claim-based version of the ACE-27 comorbidity index: A comparison with medical record review

Medical Care

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 752-760

  Fleming, Steven T ^a   Sabatino, Susan A ^b   Kimmick, Gretchen ^c   Cress, Rosemary ^d   Wu, Xiao Cheng ^e   Trentham Dietz, Amy ^f   Huang, Bin ^a   Hwang, Wenke ^g   Liff, Jonathan ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^g PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; comorbidity; epidemiology; prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT COMORBIDITY EVALUATION; AGED; BREAST CANCER; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSURANCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79961021810     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318215d7dd     Document Type: Review

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