Best Definitions of Multimorbidity to Identify Patients With High Health Care Resource Utilization.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare different definitions of multimorbidity to identify patients with higher health care resource utilization.

Patients and methods

We used a multinational retrospective cohort including 147,806 medical inpatients discharged from 11 hospitals in 3 countries (United States, Switzerland, and Israel) between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2011. We compared the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 8 definitions of multimorbidity, based on International Classification of Diseases codes defining health conditions, the Deyo-Charlson Comorbidity Index, the Elixhauser-van Walraven Comorbidity Index, body systems, or Clinical Classification Software categories to predict 30-day hospital readmission and/or prolonged length of stay (

SUBMITTER: Aubert CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011007 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature