Australian Injury Comorbidity Indices (AICIs) to predict burden and readmission among hospital-admitted injury patients

Abstract Background Existing comorbidity measures predict mortality among general patient populations. Due to the lack of outcome specific and patient-group specific measures, the existing indices are also applied to non-mortality outcomes in injury epidemiology. This study derived indices to captur...

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Main Authors: Dasamal Tharanga Fernando, Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Stuart Newstead, Zahid Ansari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-02-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06149-1