Comparison of different comorbidity measures for use with administrative data in predicting short- and long-term mortality

BACKGROUND: It is important to find a comorbidity measure with better performance for use with administrative data. The new method proposed by Elixhauser et al. has never been validated and compared to the widely used Charlson method in the Asia region. The objective of this study was to compare the...

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Autores principales: Chu, Yu-Tseng, Ng, Yee-Yung, Wu, Shiao-Chi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2897792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20507593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-140

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2897792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20507593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-140

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