The present critical review was conducted to evaluate the clinimetric properties of the
Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), an assessment tool designed specifically to predict long …

Background: The Charlson Comorbidity Index, a popular tool for risk adjustment, often is
constructed from medical record abstracts or administrative data. Limitations in both sources …

Abstract The Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) is a highly cited and well established tool for
measuring comorbidity in clinical research, but there are problems with its use in practice …

The performance and predictive power of the Deyo-Charlson and the Romano-Charlson
comorbidity indices were compared when short-term mortality after hospitalization was the …

Background: The most used score to measure comorbidity is the Charlson index. Its
application to a health care administrative database including International Classification of …

Objectives To determine whether the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) predicts short‐and
long‐term mortality. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting The medical department of two …

Background: Comorbidities may have an important impact on survival, and comorbidity
scores are often implemented in studies assessing prognosis. The Charlson Comorbidity …

The Charlson index is commonly used for risk adjustment in critical care health services
research. However, the literature supporting this methodology has not been thoroughly …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The ICD-9-CM adaptation of the Charlson comorbidity
score has been a valuable resource for health services researchers. With the transition into …

Objective: The Charlson comorbidity index has been widely used for risk adjustment in
outcome studies using administrative health data. Recently, 3 International Statistical …