Charlson Comorbidity Index Based On Hospital Episode Statistics Performs Adequately In Predicting Mortality, But Its Discriminative Ability Diminishes Over Time.
Juho PylväläinenKirsi TalalaTeemu J MurtolaKimmo TaariJani RaitanenTeuvo L J TammelaAnssi AuvinenPublished in: Clinical epidemiology (2019)
The hospitalization-based CCI, as well as that based on both databases, predicts relative mortality adequately, but its discriminative ability diminishes over time. Conditions related to hospitalizations affect survival more than medications.