Searching for an improved clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data
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UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Quantitative Health SciencesDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
1996-03-01Keywords
AgedComorbidity
Coronary Artery Bypass
Coronary Disease
Female
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Statistical
Multivariate Analysis
Reproducibility of Results
Biostatistics
Epidemiology
Health Services Research
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We studied approaches to comorbidity risk adjustment by comparing two ICD-9-CM adaptations (Deyo, Dartmouth-Manitoba) of the Charlson comorbidity index applied to Massachusetts coronary artery bypass surgery data. We also developed a new comorbidity index by assigning study-specific weights to the original Charlson comorbidity variables. The 2 ICD-9-CM coding adaptations assigned identical Charlson comorbidity scores to 90% of cases, and specific comorbidities were largely found in the same cases (kappa values of 0.72-1.0 for 15 of 16 comorbidities). Meanwhile, the study-specific comorbidity index identified a 10% subset of patients with 15% mortality, whereas the 5% highest-risk patients according to the Charlson index had only 8% mortality (p = 0.01). A model using the new index to predict mortality had better validated performance than a model based on the original Charlson index (c = 0.74 vs. 0.70). Thus, in our population, the ICD-9-CM adaptation used to create the Charlson score mattered little, but using study-specific weights with the Charlson variables substantially improved the power of these data to predict mortality.Source
J Clin Epidemiol. 1996 Mar;49(3):273-8. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1016/0895-4356(95)00564-1Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/47512PubMed ID
8676173Related Resources
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10.1016/0895-4356(95)00564-1