eci: To calculate the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index

In caimiao0714/MiaoCom: An R package for calculating comorbidity indexes for epidemiologists

Description

This file aims to calculate the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index.

Usage

eci(data, comorbidity)

Arguments

data	Your data file in which Elixhauser Comorbidity Index is to be calculated
comorbidity	A vector of all comorbidity variables

Value

data: a new data.frame named "data". This data frame contains a new variable "Elix_Index": The Elixhauser Comorbidity Index, developed by Anne Elixhauser in 1998

Note

The Elixhauser Comorbidity Index does not include age as a component of the index.

Author(s)

Miao Cai <email: [e-mail]>

References

Elixhauser, A., Steiner, C., Harris, D. R., & Coffey, R. M. (1998). Comorbidity measures for use with administrative data. Medical care, 36(1), 8-27.

van Walraven, C., Austin, P. C., Jennings, A., Quan, H., & Forster, A. J. (2009). A modification of the Elixhauser comorbidity measures into a point system for hospital death using administrative data. Medical care, 626-633.

Quan, H., Sundararajan, V., Halfon, P., Fong, A., Burnand, B., Luthi, J. C., ... & Ghali, W. A. (2005). Coding algorithms for defining comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data. Medical care, 1130-1139.

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