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Collapsing high-end categories of comorbidity may yield misleading results

Adequate control of comorbidity has long been recognized as a critical challenge in clinical epidemiology. Comorbidity scales reduce information about coexistent disease to a single index that is easy to comprehend and statistically efficient. These are the main advantages of an index over incorpora...

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Autor principal: Lash, Timothy L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20865081