Charlson comorbidity index: a critical review of clinimetric properties

ME Charlson, D Carrozzino, J Guidi… - Psychotherapy and …, 2022 - karger.com
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 …

Systematic review of comorbidity indices for administrative data

MTA Sharabiani, P Aylin, A Bottle - Medical care, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Background: Adjustment for comorbidities is common in performance benchmarking and risk
prediction. Despite the exponential upsurge in the number of articles citing or comparing …

Pre-existing traits associated with Covid-19 illness severity

JE Ebinger, N Achamallah, H Ji, BL Claggett, N Sun… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Importance Certain individuals, when infected by SARS-CoV-2, tend to develop the more
severe forms of Covid-19 illness for reasons that remain unclear. Objective To determine the …

Effect of emergency department crowding on outcomes of admitted patients

BC Sun, RY Hsia, RE Weiss, D Zingmond… - Annals of emergency …, 2013 - Elsevier
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Emergency department (ED) crowding is a prevalent health delivery
problem and may adversely affect the outcomes of patients requiring admission. We assess …

The Elixhauser comorbidity method outperforms the Charlson index in predicting inpatient death after orthopaedic surgery

ME Menendez, V Neuhaus, CN van Dijk… - Clinical Orthopaedics and …, 2014 - Springer
Background Scores derived from comorbidities can help with risk adjustment of quality and
safety data. The Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity measures are well-known risk …

Cost of joint replacement using bundled payment models

AS Navathe, AB Troxel, JM Liao, N Nan… - JAMA internal …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Medicare launched the mandatory Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement
bundled payment model in 67 urban areas for approximately 800 hospitals following its …

Urban-rural inequities in acute stroke care and in-hospital mortality

G Hammond, AA Luke, L Elson, A Towfighi… - Stroke, 2020 - ahajournals.org
Background and Purpose: The rural-urban life-expectancy gap is widening, but underlying
causes are incompletely understood. Prior studies suggest stroke care may be worse for …

A modification of the Elixhauser comorbidity measures into a point system for hospital death using administrative data

C Van Walraven, PC Austin, A Jennings, H Quan… - Medical care, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Background: Comorbidity measures are necessary to describe patient populations and
adjust for confounding. In direct comparisons, studies have found the Elixhauser comorbidity …

Thirty-day readmission rates for Medicare beneficiaries by race and site of care

KE Joynt, EJ Orav, AK Jha - Jama, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Context Understanding whether and why there are racial disparities in readmissions has
implications for efforts to reduce readmissions. Objective To determine whether black …