Open AccessAdaptation of the Charlson Comorbidity Index for Register-Based Research in Sweden
Author(s) -
Jonas F. Ludvigsson,
Peter Appelros,
Johan Askling,
Liisa Byberg,
Juan Jesús Carrero,
Anna Mia Ekström,
Magnus Ekström,
Karin E. Smedby,
Hannes Hagström,
Stefan James,
Bengt Järvholm,
Karl Michaëlsson,
Nancy L. Pedersen,
Heléne E.K. Sundelin,
Kristina Sundquist,
Johan Sundström
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s282475
Subject(s) - comorbidity , medicine , coding (social sciences) , charlson comorbidity index , register (sociolinguistics) , disease , adaptation (eye) , statistics , psychology , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience
Comorbidity indices are often used to measure comorbidities in register-based research. We aimed to adapt the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) to a Swedish setting.