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The Charlson Comorbidity Index Can Be Used Prospectively to Identify Patients Who Will Incur High Future Costs

BACKGROUND: Reducing health care costs requires the ability to identify patients most likely to incur high costs. Our objective was to evaluate the ability of the Charlson comorbidity score to predict the individuals who would incur high costs in the subsequent year and to contrast its predictive ab...

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Autores principales: Charlson, Mary, Wells, Martin T., Ullman, Ralph, King, Fionnuala, Shmukler, Celia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25469987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112479