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The {comorbidity} Package: Computing Comorbidity Scores

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comorbidity is an R package for computing comorbidity scores such as the weighted Charlson score and the Elixhauser comorbidity score; both ICD-10 and ICD-9 coding systems are supported.

Installation

comorbidity is on CRAN. You can install it as usual with:

install.packages("comorbidity")

Alternatively, you can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("ellessenne/comorbidity")

Simulating ICD-10 codes

The comorbidity packages includes a function named sample_diag() that allows simulating ICD diagnostic codes in a straightforward way. For instance, we could simulate ICD-10 codes:

# load the comorbidity package
library(comorbidity)
# set a seed for reproducibility
set.seed(1)
# simulate 50 ICD-10 codes for 5 individuals
x <- data.frame(
  id = sample(1:5, size = 50, replace = TRUE),
  code = sample_diag(n = 50)
)
x <- x[order(x$id, x$code), ]
print(head(x, n = 15), row.names = FALSE)

It is also possible to simulate from two different versions of the ICD-10 coding system. The default is to simulate ICD-10 codes from the 2011 version:

set.seed(1)
x1 <- data.frame(
  id = sample(1:3, size = 30, replace = TRUE),
  code = sample_diag(n = 30)
)
set.seed(1)
x2 <- data.frame(
  id = sample(1:3, size = 30, replace = TRUE),
  code = sample_diag(n = 30, version = "ICD10_2011")
)
# should return TRUE
all.equal(x1, x2)

Alternatively, you could use the 2009 version:

set.seed(1)
x1 <- data.frame(
  id = sample(1:3, size = 30, replace = TRUE),
  code = sample_diag(n = 30, version = "ICD10_2009")
)
set.seed(1)
x2 <- data.frame(
  id = sample(1:3, size = 30, replace = TRUE),
  code = sample_diag(n = 30, version = "ICD10_2011")
)
# should not return TRUE
all.equal(x1, x2)

Simulating ICD-9 codes

ICD-9 codes can be easily simulated too:

set.seed(2)
x9 <- data.frame(
  id = sample(1:3, size = 30, replace = TRUE),
  code = sample_diag(n = 30, version = "ICD9_2015")
)
x9 <- x9[order(x9$id, x9$code), ]
print(head(x9, n = 15), row.names = FALSE)

Computing comorbidity scores

The main function of the comorbidity package is named comorbidity(), and it can be used to compute any supported comorbidity score; scores can be specified by setting the score argument, which is required.

Say we have 3 individuals with a total of 30 ICD-10 diagnostic codes:

set.seed(1)
x <- data.frame(
  id = sample(1:3, size = 30, replace = TRUE),
  code = sample_diag(n = 30)
)

We could compute the Charlson comorbidity domains:

charlson <- comorbidity(x = x, id = "id", code = "code", map = "charlson_icd10_quan", assign0 = FALSE)
charlson

We set the assign0 argument to FALSE to not apply a hierarchy of comorbidity codes, as described in ?comorbidity::comorbidity.

Alternatively, we could compute the Elixhauser score:

elixhauser <- comorbidity(x = x, id = "id", code = "code", map = "elixhauser_icd10_quan", assign0 = FALSE)
elixhauser

Weighted an unweighted comorbidity scores can be obtained using the score() function:

unw_cci <- score(charlson, weights = NULL, assign0 = FALSE)
unw_cci

quan_cci <- score(charlson, weights = "quan", assign0 = FALSE)
quan_cci

all.equal(unw_cci, quan_cci)

Code for the Elixhauser score is omitted, but works analogously.

Conversely, say we have 5 individuals with a total of 100 ICD-9 diagnostic codes:

set.seed(3)
x <- data.frame(
  id = sample(1:5, size = 100, replace = TRUE),
  code = sample_diag(n = 100, version = "ICD9_2015")
)

The Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity codes can be easily computed once again:

charlson9 <- comorbidity(x = x, id = "id", code = "code", map = "charlson_icd9_quan", assign0 = FALSE)
charlson9

elixhauser9 <- comorbidity(x = x, id = "id", code = "code", map = "elixhauser_icd9_quan", assign0 = FALSE)
elixhauser9

Scores:

unw_eci <- score(elixhauser9, weights = NULL, assign0 = FALSE)
vw_eci <- score(elixhauser9, weights = "vw", assign0 = FALSE)
all.equal(unw_eci, vw_eci)

Citation

If you find comorbidity useful, please cite it in your publications:

citation("comorbidity")

References

More details on which comorbidity mapping and scoring algorithm are available within the package can be found in the two accompanying vignettes, which can be accessed on CRAN or directly from your R session:

vignette("A-introduction", package = "comorbidity")
vignette("B-comorbidity-scores", package = "comorbidity")

Copyright

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