Objective Earlier comorbidity measures have been developed or validated using the North
American population. This study aims to compare five Charlson or Elixhauser comorbidity …

Assessing prevalent comorbidities is a common approach in health research for identifying
clinical differences between individuals. The objective of this study was to validate and …

Objectives To determine the most reliable comorbidity measure, we adapted and validated
outcome-specific comorbidity scores to predict mortality and hospital charges using the …

Background Understanding how comorbidity measures contribute to patient mortality is
essential both to describe patient health status and to adjust for risks and potential …

Background: Recently, van Walraven developed a weighted summary score (VW) based on
the 30 comorbidities from the Elixhauser comorbidity system. One of the 30 comorbidities …

Weights assigned to comorbidities in predicting mortality may vary based on the type of
index disease and advances in the management of comorbidities. We aimed to develop a …

Objectives: To validate and compare performance of an International Classification of
Diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10) version of a combined comorbidity index merging …

Objectives To conduct a systematic review of studies reporting on the development or
validation of comorbidity indices using administrative health data and compare their ability to …

Background The performance of the Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity measures in
predicting patient outcomes have been well validated with ICD-9 data but not with ICD-10 …

Objective: The Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity indices (CCI and ECI, respectively) are
widely used to study comorbid conditions but these indices have not been validated in …