Comparing the performance of the Charlson/Deyo and Elixhauser comorbidity measures across five European countries and three conditions

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 25, Issue , 2015, Pages 15-20

  Gutacker, Nils ^a   Bloor, Karen ^a   Cookson, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE;

EID: 84929047682     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/cku221     Document Type: Article

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