Medical Risk and Comorbidity Tools for ICD-9-CM Data.
medicalrisk
medicalrisk is a collection of tools and data for performing patient-level medical risk adjustment using administrative data.
The data sets include icd9cm_charlson
and icd9cm_elixhauser
, which are data frames that map ICD-9-CM codes to comorbidities, using the Charlson and Elixhauser classifications respectively. The mapping comes from the paper by Quan in 2005, and uses the CMS ICD-9-CM table.
With a properly formatted source data frame of patients and ICD-9-CM values, the cast
or dcast
methods can be used to generate comorbidity tables.
The add_charlson_index_df
method will calculate the Charlson Comorbidity Index for each patient.
For data sources that present ICD-9-CM codes as a comma-separated listing, the melt_icd9list
method will convert such data tables into a one-row-per-code format suitable for join
or merge
to the icd9cm_*
tables.
Data Sources
For implementation, testing, and examples several external data sources are used: