Administrative data outperformed single-day chart review for comorbidity measure
Author(s) -
JeanChristophe Luthi,
Nicolas Troillet,
MarieChristine Eisenring,
Hugo Sax,
Bernard Burnand,
Hude Quan,
William A. Ghali
Publication year - 2007
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/mzm017
Subject(s) - comorbidity , chart , charlson comorbidity index , medicine , index (typography) , measure (data warehouse) , emergency medicine , medline , statistics , data mining , computer science , mathematics , world wide web , law , political science
The purpose of this article is to compare the Charlson comorbidity index derived from a rapid single-day chart review with the same index derived from administrative data to determine how well each predicted inpatient mortality and nosocomial infection.
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