Get Elixhauser Present-on-Admission Requirements

Retrieve a copy of internal lookup table with details on which Elixhauser comorbidities do and do not require the associated ICD codes to be present-on-admission to be flagged.

Usage

get_elixhauser_poa()

Value

A data.frame with the following columns:

• condition: Character vector of the conditions

• desc: Character vector with a verbose description of the condition

• poa_required: Integer indicators if the code needs to present on admission to be considered a comorbidity

• elixhauser_<variant>: indicators for the Elixhauser <variant>

See also

• get_elixhauser_index_scores() for the lookup table of the condition by condition scores for mortality and readmission indices.

• get_elixhauser_codes() for the lookup table of ICD codes mapping to the Elixhauser comorbidities.

• comorbidities() for applying comorbidity algorithms to a data set.

Examples

head(get_elixhauser_poa())
#>     condition poa_required elixhauser_ahrq2022 elixhauser_ahrq2023
#> 1        AIDS            0                   1                   1
#> 2     ALCOHOL            0                   1                   1
#> 3     ANEMDEF            1                   1                   1
#> 4  AUTOIMMUNE            0                   1                   1
#> 5     BLDLOSS            1                   1                   1
#> 6 CANCER_LEUK            0                   1                   1
#>   elixhauser_ahrq2024 elixhauser_ahrq2025 elixhauser_ahrq_icd10
#> 1                   1                   1                     1
#> 2                   1                   1                     1
#> 3                   1                   1                     1
#> 4                   1                   1                     1
#> 5                   1                   1                     1
#> 6                   1                   1                     1
str(get_elixhauser_poa())
#> 'data.frame':	49 obs. of  7 variables:
#>  $ condition            : chr  "AIDS" "ALCOHOL" "ANEMDEF" "AUTOIMMUNE" ...
#>  $ poa_required         : int  0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ elixhauser_ahrq2022  : int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ elixhauser_ahrq2023  : int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ elixhauser_ahrq2024  : int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ elixhauser_ahrq2025  : int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ elixhauser_ahrq_icd10: int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...