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A Modification of the Elixhauser Comorbidity Measures Into a Point System for Hospital Death Using Administrative Data
Medical Care · 2009 · Vol. 47(6) · pp. 626–633
Carl van Walraven✉(Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences)Peter C. Austin(Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences)Alison Jennings✉Hude Quan(University of Calgary)Alan J. Forster✉
Abstract
When analyzing administrative data, the Elixhauser comorbidity system can be condensed to a single numeric score that summarizes disease burden and is adequately discriminative for death in hospital.
Medical Coding and Health InformationChronic Disease Management StrategiesEmergency and Acute Care StudiesComorbidityConfoundingMedicineLogistic regressionInternal medicineEmergency medicine
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Health Services ResearchHospital AdministrationHospitals, TeachingHumansModels, StatisticalCohort StudiesComorbidityHospital MortalityRisk AdjustmentInternational Classification of Diseases
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