Stroke: the Elixhauser Index for comorbidity adjustment of in-hospital case fatality.
BACKGROUND: Adjustment for comorbidity is an important component of any clinical outcome study using administrative data. The Elixhauser Index is a relatively newer comorbidity index for use with administrative data and has not been used to assess prognosis in patients with stroke. Similarly, an Int...
| Publicado en: | Neurology Vol. 71; no. 4; pp. 283 - 288 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
7/22/2008
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| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |