Using the Johns Hopkins Aggregated Diagnosis Groups (ADGs) to predict mortality in a general adult population Cohort in Ontario, Canada

Medical Care

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 932-939

  Austin, Peter C ^a,b   Van Walraven, Carl ^a,c,d   Wodchis, Walter P ^a,b,e   Newman, Alice ^a   Anderson, Geoffrey M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjusted Clinical Groups; administrative data; Aggregated Diagnosis Groups; Charlson comorbidity index; comorbidity; Elixhauser comorbidities; health services research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGREGATED DIAGNOSIS GROUPS; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ONTARIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; ROC CURVE;

EID: 80052926364     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318215d5e2     Document Type: Article

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