Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 57, Issue 12 , Pages 1288-1294 , December 2004

New ICD-10 version of the Charlson comorbidity index predicted in-hospital mortality

  • Vijaya Sundararajan

      Affiliations

    • Victorian Department of Human Services, Level 18, 120 Spencer Street, Melbourne, 3000 Victoria, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 03 9637 4997; fax: +61 03 9637 4763.
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  • Toni Henderson

      Affiliations

    • Victorian Department of Human Services, Level 18, 120 Spencer Street, Melbourne, 3000 Victoria, Australia
    • ,
  • Catherine Perry

      Affiliations

    • Victorian Department of Human Services, Level 18, 120 Spencer Street, Melbourne, 3000 Victoria, Australia
    • ,
  • Amanda Muggivan

      Affiliations

    • Victorian Department of Human Services, Level 18, 120 Spencer Street, Melbourne, 3000 Victoria, Australia
    • ,
  • Hude Quan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    • ,
  • William A. Ghali

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

,Accepted 8 March 2004.

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PII: S0895-4356(04)00164-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.03.012

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 57, Issue 12 , Pages 1288-1294 , December 2004

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