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Use of the Chronic Disease Score to Measure Comorbidity in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2005

Chris MacKnight  and
Kenneth Rockwood
Chris MacKnight
Affiliation:
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Kenneth Rockwood
Affiliation:
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Abstract

Most older adults have multiple chronic diseases. Consideration of these conditions can improve the performance of statistical models in epidemiological analyses. The Chronic Disease Score (CDS) is a measure of comorbidity derived from medication usage, which may have some advantages over measures derived from other sources. The calculation of the CDS from data contained in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) is described. This measure can be used to estimate comorbidity within the CSHA database.

Type
DERIVED VARIABLES FOR THE CSHA
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 13 , Issue S1 , February 2001 , pp. 137 - 142
Copyright
© 2001 International Psychogeriatric Association

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