作者
Yaa‐Hui Dong, Chia‐Hsuin Chang, Wen‐Yi Shau, Raymond N Kuo, Mei‐Shu Lai, K Arnold Chan
发表日期
2013/2
期刊
Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy
卷号
33
期号
2
页码范围
126-136
简介
Study Objective
To develop the Pharmacy‐Based Disease Indicator (PBDI), and to evaluate its performance versus the diagnosis‐based Deyo version of the Charlson Index in predicting subsequent‐year hospitalization in adults.
Design
Retrospective cohort analysis.
Data Source
Longitudinal health insurance database derived from the national health insurance system in Taiwan.
Patients
Two adult populations were identified: 697,823 individuals who were at least 18 years of age on January 1, 2005 (dataset 2005), and 714,072 who were at least 18 years of age on January 1, 2006 (dataset 2006).
Measurements and Main Results
Based on the Chronic Disease Score framework and the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification system, we developed the PBDI, a comorbidity measure that is a function of 37 drug categories that correspond to major diseases in Taiwan. The relationship between …
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