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SUBMITTER: Hall RE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6892203 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hall Ruth E RE Porter Joan J Quan Hude H Reeves Mathew J MJ
BMC health services research 20191203 1
<h4>Background</h4>The Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) is commonly used to adjust for patient casemix. We reevaluated the CCI in an ischemic stroke (IS) cohort to determine whether the original seventeen comorbidities and their weights are relevant.<h4>Methods</h4>We identified an IS cohort (N = 6988) from the Ontario Stroke Registry (OSR) who were discharged from acute hospitals (N = 100) between April 1, 2012 and March 31, 2013. We used hospital discharge ICD-10-CA data to identify Charlson c ...[more]