These lists provide correctly sorted names of the comorbidities and their particular permutations in both full and abbreviated forms.
In the Elixhauser derived mappings, uncomplicated and complicated
hypertension are listed separately, but are always combined in the final
analyses. Uncomplicated and complicated hypertension are list separately
and as "Hypertension, combined." Abbrev suffix indicates a very short
space-free description. Quan's version of Elixhauser is identical. AHRQ's
update drops the arrythmia field. The naming convention is a root, e.g.
elixComorbid, with neither/either/both suffixes Htn and
Abbrev. The Charlson derived mappings do not include hypertension.
Abbreviated comorbidity names are helpful for interactive work, whereas the
full names might be prefered for plotting.
list, with character/numeric code. 'Hypertension, uncomplicated' and 'Hypertension, complicated' are labelled '6a' and '6b'. Diabetes, cancer, and metastasis are counted independently, as in the original paper, giving the original 30 groups. "01" to "30"