OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate a maternal comorbidity index to predict severe
maternal morbidity, defined as the occurrence of acute maternal end-organ injury, or …

Propensity score (PS) methodology is a common approach to control for confounding in
nonexperimental studies of treatment effects using health care utilization databases. This …

OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI) for
mortality based on information collected by the Multidimensional Assessment Schedule …

Objective To predict future medical expenditures, health care utilization, and mortality in
Switzerland using an updated chronic disease score (CDS), a chronic morbidity measure …

Objective Gout is a common form of inflammatory arthritis with an increasing prevalence in
developed countries. It is well known that many patients with gout have significant …

Objectives Clinicians and payers require rapid comparative effectiveness (CE) evidence
generation to inform decisions for new drugs. We empirically assessed treatment dynamics …

Study Objective To develop the Pharmacy‐Based Disease Indicator (PBDI), and to evaluate
its performance versus the diagnosis‐based Deyo version of the Charlson Index in …

Background The performance of comorbidity measures for predicting mortality in chronic
disease populations and using ICD-9 diagnosis codes in administrative health data has …

Background Centrally active (CA) angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) are
able to cross the blood–brain barrier. Small observational studies and mouse models …

Objectives To ascertain predictors of initiation of brand‐name versus generic narrow
therapeutic index (NTI) drugs. Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting Data from CVS C …