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Validating a Patient-Reported Comorbidity Measure with Respect to Quality of Life in End-Stage Renal Disease

PURPOSE: Medical record-derived comorbidity measures such as the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) do not predict functional limitations or quality of life (QoL) in the chronically ill. Although these shortcomings are known since the 1980s, they have been largely ignored by the international literatu...

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Autores principales: Robinski, Maxi, Strich, Franz, Mau, Wilfried, Girndt, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4905653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27294867
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157506