Identifying Increased Risk of Readmission and In-hospital Mortality Using Hospital Administrative Data: The AHRQ Elixhauser Comorbidity Index

Medical Care

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 698-705

  Moore, Brian J ^a   White, Susan ^b   Washington, Raynard ^c   Coenen, Natalia ^a   Elixhauser, Anne ^d  

^a IBM WATSON HEALTH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^d AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comorbidity index; Elixhauser comorbidity system; hospital readmission; in hospital mortality; State Inpatient Databases

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS (HEALTH CARE); ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABUSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MEDICARE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; PARALYSIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEPTICEMIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLID MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; FACTUAL DATABASE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85021320245     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000735     Document Type: Article

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