A Modification of the Elixhauser Comorbidity Measures Into a Point System for Hospital Death Using Administrative Data

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Summary

The Elixhauser comorbidity system can be condensed to a single numeric score that summarizes disease burden and is adequately discriminative for death in hospital when analyzing administrative data.

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2009-06-01
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Comorbidity, Confounding, Medicine, Logistic regression, Internal medicine

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