Release-aware, SAS-equivalent Elixhauser comorbidity scoring in R: cross-implementation validation and application to Texas inpatient discharges
The Elixhauser comorbidity measures are among the most widely used risk adjusters in administrative health data. Their reference implementation, published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as SAS programs, has eleven annual releases in two families, one screening pre-existing conditions on the pr...