Strategies for improving comorbidity measures based on Medicare and Medicaid claims data

PS Wang, A Walker, M Tsuang, EJ Orav, R Levin… - Journal of clinical …, 2000 - Elsevier
hospitalization. Unfortunately, such diagnostic information is often limited because patients
have not been hospitalized … of the hospitalization rather than pre-existing comorbid conditions…

Impact of comorbidities on hospitalization costs following hip fracture

LE Nikkel, EJ Fox, KP Black, C Davis, L Andersen… - Jbjs, 2012 - journals.lww.com
… Little is known about the relationship between comorbid illness and hospital costs or …
comorbid illnesses and multiple comorbid illnesses would be directly related to the hospitalization

The impact of comorbidity on mortality following in-hospital diagnosis of tuberculosis

VK Rao, EP Lademarco, VJ Fraser, MH Kollef - Chest, 1998 - Elsevier
… institution revealed the case fatality rate to be … mortality rates. In an effort to define those
characteristics that might be predictive of mortality, we describe our experience with hospitalized

Complications, comorbidities, and mortality: improving classification and prediction.

LL Roos, L Stranc, RC James, J Li - Health Services Research, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… and longitudinal using Manitoba data on hospital utilization and mortality. … , the hospital
discharge data permit quantifying the effect of complications on various measures of comorbidity: …

Evaluation of comorbidity indices for inpatient mortality prediction models

M Martins, R Blais - Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2006 - Elsevier
hospitalization database run by the School of Medicine, University of Ribeirão Preto (FMRP),
which covers 100% of hospital … that severity measures based on comorbidities have a …

Comorbidity and thirty-day hospital readmission odds in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a comparison of the Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity indices

RG Buhr, NJ Jackson, GF Kominski… - BMC health services …, 2019 - Springer
… Inconsistent coding of comorbid conditions at the time of hospital discharge may hinder
our ability to truly model the breadth of comorbidity in our study. We were also limited by the …

Performance of three measures of comorbidity in predicting critical COVID-19: a retrospective analysis of 4607 hospitalized patients

D Monterde, G Carot-Sans… - … and Healthcare Policy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… , and no studies have explored the appropriate measure for adjusting for multimorbidity in
… DxS as a comorbidity measure in models for predicting outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 …

Impact of comorbidity on mortality among older persons with advanced heart failure

SC Ahluwalia, CP Gross, SI Chaudhry, YM Ning… - Journal of general …, 2012 - Springer
… We estimated the effect of comorbidity burden on mortality within the hospitalized and non-…
of individual comorbidities on mortality within the hospitalized and non-hospitalized groups …

The ability of comorbidity indices to predict mortality in an orthopedic setting: a systematic review

PH Gundtoft, M Jørstad, JL Erichsen, H Schmal… - Systematic reviews, 2021 - Springer
… The results of this review indicate that the ECI and CCI can equally be used to adjust for
comorbidities when analyzing in-hospital mortality in an orthopedic setting where they have fair …

Predicting in-hospital mortality in elderly patients with cervical spine fractures: a comparison of the Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity measures

ME Menendez, D Ring, MB Harris, TD Cha - Spine, 2015 - journals.lww.com
comorbidity measure has been shown to predict mortality … recent and increasingly used
Elixhauser measure. Using nationally … comorbidity measures for predicting in-hospital mortality in …