The Charlson comorbidity index is adapted to predict costs of chronic disease in primary care patients.

By M. Charlson, R. E. Charlson, J. Peterson, S. Marinopoulos, W. Briggs, J. Hollenberg. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2008

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology, General Health Professions

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In Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

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3. Louis Mayaud
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Citations in the corpus

• Dynamic data during hypotensive episode improves mortality predictions among patients with sepsis and hypotension (2013, methodology): “The Van Walraven score is a modification of the Elixhauser comorbidity score (20), equivalent to the Charlson score (39, 40), which provides a weighting for 30 comorbidities: it is a validated and easily obtainable proxy for comorbid conditions.”