Comparison of different comorbidity measures for use with administrative data in predicting short- and long-term mortality
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>It is important to find a comorbidity measure with better performance for use with administrative data. The new method proposed by Elixhauser et al. has never been validated and compared to the widely used Charlson method in the Asia...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/10/140 |