Charlson Comorbidity Index

by Mark Morgan on June 16, 2010

in Care of the elderly

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Summary:  A prognostic score based on disease burden. Death rate figures are from a 1996 validation..
References:
Original article: Charlson ME, Pompei P, Ales KL, MacKenzie CR (1987). A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: development and validation. J Chron Dis, 40(5): 373-383.
A validation (used for score interpretation): Journal of Clinical Epidemiology Volume 49, Issue 12, December 1996, Pages 1429-1433

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