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Developed and validated a weighted comorbidity index for estimating mortality risk in longitudinal studies using development and independent follow-up cohorts.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact 1987 Journal of Chronic Diseases paper and its studied cohorts. Administrative-code adaptations, recalibrations, disease-specific variants and use as a universal individual prognostic score remain separate.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact 1987 Journal of Chronic Diseases paper and its studied cohorts. Administrative-code adaptations, recalibrations, disease-specific variants and use as a universal individual prognostic score remain separate.
Contributors
- Mary E. Charlson · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Peter Pompei · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Kathy L. Ales · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- C. Ronald MacKenzie · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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