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      A combined comorbidity score predicted mortality in elderly patients better than existing scores.

      Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
      Aged, Cohort Studies, Comorbidity, Female, Hospital Mortality, Humans, Logistic Models, Male, Mortality, New Jersey, epidemiology, Pennsylvania, Predictive Value of Tests, Risk Adjustment

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          To develop and validate a single numerical comorbidity score for predicting short- and long-term mortality, by combining conditions in the Charlson and Elixhauser measures. In a cohort of 120,679 Pennsylvania Medicare enrollees with drug coverage through a pharmacy assistance program, we developed a single numerical comorbidity score for predicting 1-year mortality, by combining the conditions in the Charlson and Elixhauser measures. We externally validated the combined score in a cohort of New Jersey Medicare enrollees, by comparing its performance to that of both component scores in predicting 1-year mortality, as well as 180-, 90-, and 30-day mortality. C-statistics from logistic regression models including the combined score were higher than corresponding c-statistics from models including either the Romano implementation of the Charlson Index or the single numerical version of the Elixhauser system; c-statistics were 0.860 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.854, 0.866), 0.839 (95% CI: 0.836, 0.849), and 0.836 (95% CI: 0.834, 0.847), respectively, for the 30-day mortality outcome. The combined comorbidity score also yielded positive values for two recently proposed measures of reclassification. In similar populations and data settings, the combined score may offer improvements in comorbidity summarization over existing scores. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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          21208778
          3100405
          10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.10.004

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          Aged,Cohort Studies,Comorbidity,Female,Hospital Mortality,Humans,Logistic Models,Male,Mortality,New Jersey,epidemiology,Pennsylvania,Predictive Value of Tests,Risk Adjustment

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