Charlson Comorbid coding (pre ICD10)
The Charlson Comorbid score is the sum of points for all Comorbid Diagnoses that have a Charlson score associated with them. Template:Discussion
- is that the definition we use? Where is the master definition? Ttenbergen 22:18, 2014 January 15 (CST)
- maybe a link to the original paper? Ttenbergen 23:14, 2014 May 26 (CDT)
- do we, and if not, should we include any subset of diagnoses (as opposed to comorbids) that are also allowed as diagnoses, in the calculation of the score? Ttenbergen 22:18, 2014 January 15 (CST) Ttenbergen 23:14, 2014 May 26 (CDT)
SAS coding macro comorbid3
The statistician has a SAS macro called "comorbid3" that calculates the score for data after import.
CCMBD.mdb
queries
- s_charlson_score
sums the scores in
- s_charlson__combined
which unions (ie no duplicates)
- s_charlson_adm - list of scores for the highest-scoring admit dx per charlson category
- s_charlson_como - list of scores for the highest-scoring comorbid dx per charlson category
function Charlson_score_function
The function Charlson_score_function (Pat_ID) in CCMDB.mdb looks up and returns the score in query s_charlsonScore.