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Predicting mortality from change-over-time in the Charlson Comorbidity Index: A retrospective cohort study in a data-intensive UK health system

Multimorbidity is common among older people and presents a major challenge to health systems worldwide. Metrics of multimorbidity are, however, crude: focusing on measuring comorbid conditions at single time-points rather than reflecting the longitudinal and additive nature of chronic conditions. In...

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Autores principales: Fraccaro, Paolo, Kontopantelis, Evangelos, Sperrin, Matthew, Peek, Niels, Mallen, Christian, Urban, Philip, Buchan, Iain E., Mamas, Mamas A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5089087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27787358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000004973