Developing a comorbidity score in cancer patients using healthcare utilization databases during the COVID-19 pandemic: An experience from Italy.

Paolo Lasalvia Annalisa Trama Laura Botta Matteo Franchi Alice Bernasconi

Published in: Cancer medicine (2022)

We developed a high performance comorbidity score for cancer patients and COVID-19. Being based on administrative databases, this score will be useful for adjusting for comorbidity confounding in epidemiological studies on COVID-19 and cancer impact.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
sars cov
healthcare
big data
squamous cell carcinoma
machine learning