External validation and comparison of two variants of the Elixhauser comorbidity measures for all-cause mortality

• Yannick Fortin ,

  * E-mail: yfort006@uottawa.ca

  Affiliations McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7300-9549

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• James A. G. Crispo,

  Affiliations McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Fulbright Canada Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Deborah Cohen,

  Affiliations School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI), Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Douglas S. McNair,

  Affiliation Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Donald R. Mattison,

  Affiliations McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Risk Sciences International, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Daniel Krewski

  Affiliations McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Risk Sciences International, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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