Charlson Comorbidity Index: A Critical Review of Clinimetric Properties

The present critical review was conducted to evaluate the clinimetric properties of the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), an assessment tool designed specifically to predict long-term mortality, with regard to its reliability, concurrent validity, sensitivity, incremental and predictive validity. It may also predict in-hospital mortality, although in some instances, such as ICU or trauma patients, the CCI did not perform as well as other instruments designed specifically for that purpose.

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• 1 The original version of the CCI has been adapted for use with different sources of data, ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes.
• 2 The inter-rater reliability of the CCI was found to be excellent, with extremely high agreement between self-report and medical charts.
• 3 The CCI has also been shown either to have concurrent validity with a number of other prognostic scales or to result in concordant predictions.

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