Iran J Public Health
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Iran J Public Health · May 2021
Performance of Charlson and Elixhauser Comorbidity Index to Predict in-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Stroke in Sumadija and Western Serbia.
Comorbidities are major predictors of in-hospital mortality in stroke patients. The Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) and the Elikhauser comorbidity index (ECI) are scoring systems for classifying comorbidities. We aimed to compare the performance of the CCI and ECI to predict in-hospital mortality in stroke patients. ⋯ Both, the CCI and the ECI can be used as scoring systems for classifying comorbidities in the administrative databases, but the model's ECI Score had a better discriminative performance of in-hospital mortality in the stroke patients than the CCI Score model.