A new elixhauser-based comorbidity summary measure to predict in-hospital mortality

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 374-379

  Thompson, Nicolas R ^a   Fan, Youran ^a   Dalton, Jarrod E ^a   Jehi, Lara ^a   Rosenbaum, Benjamin P ^a   Vadera, Sumeet ^b   Griffith, Sandra D ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

comorbidity adjustment; comorbidity summary measures; Elixhauser comorbidity system; Nationwide Inpatient Sample

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HOSPITAL PATIENT;

COMORBIDITY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MARYLAND;

EID: 84925970735     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000326     Document Type: Article

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