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The following function adds the weights of the Elixhausers index according to an article by van Walraven et al. Note that a few disease categories have a negative weight, i.e. are protective according to their article.
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Weighted comorbidities
C. van Walraven, P. C. Austin, A. Jennings, H. Quan, and A. J. Forster, "A Modification of the Elixhauser Comorbidity Measures Into a Point System for Hospital Death Using Administrative Data" Medical Care, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 626-633, Jun. 2009.
Other weight functions:
weight.Charlsons.Quan2011
;
weight.Charlsons.org
1 2 | out <- cmrbdt.finder.regex.elixhauser_Quan2005("C69")
weight.Elixhausers.VanWalraven2009(out)
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