New Morbidity and Comorbidity Scores based on the Structure of the ICD-10.

Measures of morbidity and comorbidity are frequently used for the control of confounding, particularly in health services research. Several proposals for those measures are defined with ICD-coded diagnoses available in hospital routine data. However, a measure that makes use of the ICD structure is...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jürgen Stausberg, Stefan Hagn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4677989?pdf=render

Similar Items