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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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Dove Medical Press
2009
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943159/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20865081 |