Effects of longitudinal changes in Charlson comorbidity on prognostic survival model performance among newly diagnosed patients with hypertension

Effects of longitudinal changes in Charlson comorbidity on prognostic survival model performance among newly diagnosed patients with hypertension

Abstract Background To assess the use of updated comorbidity information over time on ability to predict mortality among adults with newly diagnosed hypertension. Methods We studied adults 18 years and older with an incident diagnosis of hypertension from Alberta, Canada. We compared the prognostic...

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Main Authors: Peter Rymkiewicz, Pietro Ravani, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Finlay A. McAlister, Danielle A. Southern, Robin Walker, Guanmin Chen, Hude Quan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-11-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
Charlson
Comorbidity
Model performance
Hypertension
Longitudinal change
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-016-1910-8

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