Developing an adapted Charlson comorbidity index for ischemic stroke outcome studies

Hall, RE; Porter, J; Quan, H; Reeves, MJ

Hall, RE (reprint author), ICES, 2075 Bayview Ave,G Wing, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.; Hall, RE (reprint author), Univ Toronto, Dalla Lana Sch Publ Hlth, Inst Hlth Policy Management & Evaluat, Toronto, ON, Canada.

BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, 2019; 19 (1):

Abstract

Background: The Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) is commonly used to adjust for patient casemix. We reevaluated the CCI in an ischemic stroke (IS) coh......

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