… , and cancer), albumin level, and prior admission within 60 days as factors associated with
90-… age, sex, insurance, prior hospitalizations, and three specific comorbidities (heart disease, …

… To qualify for the study, patients had to have been followed for at least 1 year prior to …
of each hospitalization and the number of admissions. Only the comorbidity score remained …

… comorbidity measures for mortality and hospitalization … predictive performance of comorbidity
measures in different … on data from the year immediately prior to the outcome observation …

… illness severity and comorbid conditions, and it may be used to predict risk immediately on …
at least 1 year of claims data for prior hospitalizations. These prior claims data would likely be …

… , age, and comorbidity) and episode characteristics (short … comorbidity (measured as a
Charlson comorbidity index score greater than 5) had higher odds of increasing hospital use prior …

… comorbidity measures are relatively rare, however. In general, these indices have been
developed to predict mortality following hospitalization (a … only the second prior year of inpatient …

… Furthermore, on the basis of prior work, we hypothesized that patients with such comorbidity
… codes from the index hospitalization, prior psychiatric admissions, or prior outpatient claims)…

… effect of comorbidity burden on mortality within the hospitalized and non-hospitalized groups
in … Our findings confirm the results of prior studies13–17 that hospitalization for HF identifies …

… for an ACSC, and depression as well as comorbidity between … hospitalization for pneumonia,
CHF, or MI. Our findings build upon prior studies identifying that older adults with comorbid …

… comorbidities at the index hospitalization) could lead to additional detection of comorbidities
and … The results of this study extend prior studies in several important directions. Firstly, it …