Open AccessUse of comorbidity scores for control of confounding in studies using administrative databases
Author(s) -
Sebastian Schneeweiß,
Malcolm Maclure
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/29.5.891
Subject(s) - comorbidity , medicine , confounding , epidemiology , diagnosis code , population , psychiatry , environmental health
Comorbidity scores are increasingly used to reduce potential confounding in epidemiological research. Our objective was to compare metrical and practical properties of published comorbidity scores for use in epidemiological research with administrative databases.
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