Table 5.
Comorbidity Scores and Their Discrimination for Short- and Long-Term Mortality in the Validation Cohort (NJ/PAAD)
Measure of mortality | c-statistic (95% confidence interval) |
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Romano/Charlson Score | van Walraven/Elixhauser Score | Combined Score | |
30-day mortality | 0.839 (0.836–0.849) | 0.836 (0.834–0.847) | 0.860 (0.854–0.866) |
90-day mortality | 0.808 (0.805–0.813) | 0.808 (0.804–0.812) | 0.824 (0.820–0.828) |
180-day mortality | 0.794 (0.791–0.797) | 0.790 (0.787–0.794) | 0.806 (0.803–0.810) |
1-year mortality | 0.778 (0.776–0.780) | 0.772 (0.770–0.775) | 0.788 (0.786–0.791) |
Note: Models including Romano/Charlson, van Walraven/Elixhauser, and the combined score are all age- and sex-adjusted.