Developing an adapted Charlson comorbidity index for ischemic stroke outcome studies

Background The Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) is commonly used to adjust for patient casemix. We reevaluated the CCI in an ischemic stroke (IS) cohort to determine whether the original seventeen comorbidities and their weights are relevant. Methods We identified an IS cohort ( N  = 6988) from the...

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Published in:BMC health services research Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 930 - 9
Main Authors: Hall, Ruth E., Porter, Joan, Quan, Hude, Reeves, Mathew J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London BioMed Central 03.12.2019
BioMed Central Ltd
BMC
Subjects:
Administrative data
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Analysis
Brain Ischemia
Charlson comorbidity
Comorbidity
Diagnosis-Related Groups
Female
Health Administration
Health Informatics
Hospital admission and discharge
Hospital patients
Humans
International Classification of Diseases
Ischemia
Ischemic stroke
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Mortality
Nursing Research
Ontario
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Patient Discharge
Prognosis
Proportional Hazards Models
Public Health
Quality
Research Article
Retrospective Studies
Risk adjustment
safety and outcomes
Stroke
Stroke - epidemiology
Ontario
Administrative data
Charlson comorbidity
Ischemic stroke
Risk adjustment
Mortality
ISSN:1472-6963, 1472-6963
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Summary:Background The Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) is commonly used to adjust for patient casemix. We reevaluated the CCI in an ischemic stroke (IS) cohort to determine whether the original seventeen comorbidities and their weights are relevant. Methods We identified an IS cohort ( N  = 6988) from the Ontario Stroke Registry (OSR) who were discharged from acute hospitals ( N  = 100) between April 1, 2012 and March 31, 2013. We used hospital discharge ICD-10-CA data to identify Charlson comorbidities. We developed a multivariable Cox model to predict one-year mortality retaining statistically significant ( P  < 0.05) comorbidities with hazard ratios ≥1.2. Hazard ratios were used to generate revised weights (1–6) for the comorbid conditions. The performance of the IS adapted Charlson comorbidity index (ISCCI) mortality model was compared to the original CCI using the c-statistic and continuous Net Reclassification Index (cNRI). Results Ten of the 17 Charlson comorbid conditions were retained in the ISCCI model and 7 had reassigned weights when compared to the original CCI model . The ISCCI model showed a small but significant increase in the c-statistic compared to the CCI for 30-day mortality (c-statistic 0.746 vs. 0.732, p  = 0.009), but no significant increase in c-statistic for in-hospital or one-year mortality. There was also no improvement in the cNRI when the ISCCI model was compared to the CCI. Conclusions The ISCCI model had similar performance to the original CCI model. The key advantage of the ISCCI model is it includes seven fewer comorbidities and therefore easier to implement in situations where coded data is unavailable.
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ISSN:1472-6963
1472-6963
DOI:10.1186/s12913-019-4720-y