get_elixhauser_poa: Get Elixhauser Present-on-Admission Requirements

In medicalcoder: A Unified and Longitudinally Aware Framework for ICD-Based Comorbidity Assessment

Get Elixhauser Present-on-Admission Requirements

Description

Retrieve a copy of internal lookup table with details on which Elixhauser comorbidities do and do not require the associated ICD codes to be present-on-admission to be flagged.

Usage

get_elixhauser_poa()

Value

A data.frame with the following columns:

• condition: Character vector of the conditions

• desc: Character vector with a verbose description of the condition

• poa_required: Integer indicators if the code needs to present on admission to be considered a comorbidity

• ⁠elixhauser_<variant>⁠: indicators for the Elixhauser ⁠<variant>⁠

See Also

• get_elixhauser_index_scores() for the lookup table of the condition by condition scores for mortality and readmission indices.

• get_elixhauser_codes() for the lookup table of ICD codes mapping to the Elixhauser comorbidities.

• comorbidities() for applying comorbidity algorithms to a data set.

Examples

head(get_elixhauser_poa())
str(get_elixhauser_poa())

medicalcoder documentation built on Feb. 22, 2026, 5:08 p.m.