quanDeyoComorbid: Quan adaptation of Deyo/Charlson comorbidities
Description
Derived programmatically from the SAS code used in the original
publication. According to the referenced study, this provides the best
presdictor of in-patient to Format
list of character vectors, each named by co-morbidityReferences
Quan, Hude, Vijaya Sundararajan, Patricia Halfon, Andrew Fong,
Bernard Burnand, Jean-Christophe Luthi, L. Duncan Saunders, Cynthia A.
Beck, Thomas E. Feasby, and William A. Ghali. "Coding Algorithms for
Defining Comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Administrative Data." Medical
Care 43, no. 11 (November 1, 2005): 1130-39.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16224307
http://web.archive.org/web/20110225042437/http://www.chaps.ucalgary.ca/sas