weight.Charlsons.Quan2011: Score points for Quan's updated weight for the Charlson index

Description Usage Arguments Value References See Also Examples

View source: R/weights.R

Description

The following function adds the weights of the Charlson according to an update in 2011 by Quan et al where the maximum score is 24 and the weights are between 0-6, i.e. a few comorbidities are no longer considered of importance (MI, PVD, etc.)

Usage

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Arguments

ds

This is a data.frame or matrix with the comorbidity groups as returned by any of the Charlson functions

Value

Weighted comorbidities

References

H. Quan, B. Li, C. M. Couris, K. Fushimi, P. Graham, P. Hider, J.-M. Januel, and V. Sundararajan, <e2><80><9c>Updating and Validating the Charlson Comorbidity Index and Score for Risk Adjustment in Hospital Discharge Abstracts Using Data From 6 Countries,<e2><80><9d> Am. J. Epidemiol., vol. 173, no. 6, pp. 676<e2><80><93>682, Mar. 2011.

See Also

Other weight functions: weight.Charlsons.org; weight.Elixhausers.VanWalraven2009

Examples

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