weight.Elixhausers.VanWalraven2009: Score points for van Walraven et al's weighting of the...

Description Usage Arguments Value References See Also Examples

View source: R/weights.R

Description

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.

Usage

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Arguments

ds

This is a data.frame or matrix with the comorbidity groups as returned by the Elixhauser function

Value

Weighted comorbidities

References

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.

See Also

Other weight functions: weight.Charlsons.Quan2011; weight.Charlsons.org

Examples

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