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A comparison of comorbidities obtained from hospital administrative data and medical charts in older patients with pneumonia

BACKGROUND: The use of comorbidities in risk adjustment for health outcomes research is frequently necessary to explain some of the observed variations. Medical charts reviews to obtain information on comorbidities is laborious. Increasingly, electronic health care databases have provided an alterna...

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Autores principales: Chong, Wai Fung, Ding, Yew Yoong, Heng, Bee Hoon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3112394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21586172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-105