Comorbidity scores for administrative data benefited from adaptation to local coding and diagnostic practices

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1426-1433

  Bottle, Alex ^a   Aylin, Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Casemix; Charlson; Comorbidity; Elixhauser; Hospitals; Mortality; Risk modeling

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CHARLSON INDEX; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CODING; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELIXHAUSER INDEX; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGORITHMS; COMORBIDITY; ENGLAND; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 80055019696     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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