… Rural inhabitants may have less access to acute care facilities, although prior studies
have demonstrated higher hospitalization rates for ambulatory care–sensitive conditions (…

… Age, male gender, prior hospitalizations, and certain comorbid conditions were risk factors
for … the fact that increased age and prior hospitalizations are independent predictors of future …

… opportunity for comorbidity data across cases since the availability of data from records of
prior hospitalizations was a function of consistency of hospital use as well as comorbidity. Key …

… comorbid conditions simply because only a small proportion of the population is hospitalized
… more than one physician claim, as consistent with prior work 6, 22. The algorithm we used …

… , hospitalization, and fracture outcomes in two osteoporosis cohorts defined from administrative
databases. The optimal comorbidity measure … the year immediately prior to the outcome …

… For all hospitalizations at the Ottawa Hospital, Canada, between 1996 and 2008, we
determined if International Classification of Disease codes for chronic diagnoses were in any of the …

… In addition to these original scores based on hospitalization only, we also calculated scores
based on the diagnoses associated with all inpatient and outpatient physician services or …

… of comorbidity information from prior hospitalizations also found similarly small improvements
in models constructed with prior hospitalization … abstracts used prior comorbidity data to …

… stay, ICU use, number of acute hospitalizations in the prior year, and the CAUTI and DVTPE.
Subsequent models included 1 of the 3 comorbidity indices. Post-acute discharge settings …

… hospitalizations was drawn from hospitalizations 12 months prior to the index hospitalization,
… disorder diagnosis at index hospitalization and medical comorbidity was determined from a …