… for patients who had been hospitalized previously. We employed … who had been hospitalized
in the 5 years prior to study … comorbidity of those patients who had no prior hospitalization, …

… of discharge medications, medical comorbidities, and patient … We kept prior hospitalizations
and age as primary … (eg, prior emergency department visits and prior hospitalizations) were …

… and hospitalization. Specifically, we sought to determine whether comorbidity measures
based … was 4.2 (3.9) and 17% had been hospitalized prior to the beginning of the study period. …

… The most commonly reported comorbidities were atrial fibrillation (44.5%), prior coronary …
Most (73%) of the sample had been hospitalized due to heart failure in the prior year. The mean …

… Prior hospitalizations and ambulatory doctor visits were obtained from utilization data. Two
… For health status, we substituted the Chronic Disease Score (CDS), an index of comorbidity …

… comorbidities or to avoid exposing household contacts. If … The current definition of COVID-19
hospitalizations includes … prior to admission or discharge, rather than hospitalizations due to …

… data available prior to hospital admission, we developed a predictive model with very high
discrimination for the likelihood of RBC transfusion at 24 hours and through hospitalization. …

… each comorbidity measure and indicators of health resource utilization including medication
use, hospitalizations … of prior research documenting the reliability and validity of a self-report …

… as the first hospitalization in 1999 with a primary diagnosis of hip fracture or any hospitalization
in 1999 with evidence of surgical hip fracture repair. Comorbidity was assessed at the …

… , because both prior health care costs and prior hospitalization overestimate subsequent …
A study of 4,774 individuals out of a population of 214,000 who had ≥3 hospitalizations (or …