The Elixhauser comorbidity method outperforms the Charlson index in predicting inpatient death after orthopaedic surgery

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 472, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2878-2886

  Menendez, Mariano E ^a   Neuhaus, Valentin ^a   Van Dijk, C Niek ^b   Ring, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ABUSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OBESITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PARAPLEGIA; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SOLID TUMOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905962173     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-014-3686-7     Document Type: Article

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