medicalcoder (version 0.8.0)

get_elixhauser_index_scores: Get Elixhauser Index Scores

Description

Functions to get a copy of internal lookup tables for the ICD codes and index scores used in assessing Elixhauser comorbidities.

Usage

get_elixhauser_index_scores()

Value

A data.frame with the following columns:

• condition: Character vector of the conditions

• index: Character vector indicating if the score is for the mortality or the readmission index score

• elixhauser_<variant>: integer vector of the scores

See Also

• get_elixhauser_codes() for the lookup table of ICD codes mapping to the Elixhauser comorbidities.

• get_elixhauser_poa() for the lookup table of the conditions which do an do not require associated ICD codes to be present-on-admission to flag the comorbidity.

• comorbidities() for applying comorbidity algorithms to a data set.

Examples

head(get_elixhauser_index_scores())
str(get_elixhauser_index_scores())