The use of a bayesian hierarchy to develop and validate a co-morbidity score to predict mortality for linked primary and secondary care data from the NHS in England

Background: We have assessed whether the linkage between routine primary and secondary care records provided an opportunity to develop an improved population based co-morbidity score with the combined information on co-morbidities from both health care settings. Methods: We extracted all people...

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Main Authors: Crooks, Colin J., Card, Timothy R., West, Joe
Format: Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37945/