An electronic application for rapidly calculating Charlson comorbidity score

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Uncertainty regarding comorbid illness, and ability to tolerate aggressive therapy has led to minimal enrollment of elderly cancer patients into clinical trials and often substandard treatment. Increasingly, comorbid illness scales h...

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Main Authors: Jani Ashesh B, Narayan Samir, Ramachandran Ramanathan, Hall William H, Vijayakumar Srinivasan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2004-12-01
Series:BMC Cancer
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/4/94