Validation and Comparison of a Modified Elixhauser Index for Predicting In-Hospital Mortality in Italian Internal Medicine Wards.

Alfredo De Giorgi Emanuele Di Simone Rosaria CappadonaBenedetta BoariCaterina SavrièPablo Jesús Lopez Soto María Aurora Rodríguez Borrego Massimo Gallerani Roberto Manfredini Fabio Fabbian

Published in: Risk management and healthcare policy (2020)

The new modified Elixhauser score showed a similar performance to a previous clinical prognostic index when it was calculated using administrative data; however, its performance improved if calculation was based on chart review.

Keyphrases

electronic health record
machine learning
clinical evaluation