Open AccessDoes comorbidity affect the outcome of surgery? Total hip replacement in the UK and Japan
Author(s) -
K. Imamura,
Nick Black
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal for quality in health care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.769
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1464-3677
pISSN - 1353-4505
DOI - 10.1093/intqhc/10.2.113
Subject(s) - comorbidity , affect (linguistics) , medicine , outcome (game theory) , predictive power , charlson comorbidity index , physical therapy , psychology , philosophy , communication , mathematical economics , epistemology , mathematics
To assess the impact of comorbidity on the outcome of surgery in the UK and in Japan; to determine the predictive ability of a new measure of comorbidity, the Index of Co-Existent Diseases (ICED); and to see if its predictive power could be improved.
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