topic Re: Charlson Comorbidity Index in SAS Programming

Charlson Comorbidity Index

cpeloquin — Fri, 27 May 2022 20:02:11 GMT

Hello.

From searching the community, I see this question was asked by someone else a few years ago. I am going to ask again in case the answer has changed over the last few years.

I am working with administrative claims data and need to create a charlson comorbidity index or some type of elixhauser composite score. Any suggestions on where I can find a macro that uses both ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes?

Are there any webinars on this?

I am coming from EHR background and would like to learn more about admin claims research in general. Are there any for-a-fee courses that would be applicable? or a consultant that I could pay for a few hours to ask questions and get recommendations?

Many thanks for your help.

Christine

(in case it is helpful, here are some additional details:

-inpatient and outpatient claims

-currently using Marketscan Commerical Claims and Encounter data

-will be using Medicare data in the near future

Re: Charlson Comorbidity Index

sbxkoenk — Sat, 28 May 2022 10:04:15 GMT

Hello,

I do not know that ' Charlson Comorbidity Index ' but on top of searching the SAS Communities , it is always worthwhile to also check the website :
https://www.lexjansen.com/

( it is a collection of all papers from the proceedings of all historical SAS conferences ).

So, go to https://www.lexjansen.com/

and search for ' Charlson Comorbidity Index '.

As an example, the first hit is this one (from the year 2013) :
Macro computing Charlson Comorbidity Index from CMS Claims Data
https://www.lexjansen.com/wuss/2013/119_Paper.pdf

Cheers,

Koen

Re: Charlson Comorbidity Index

Tom — Sat, 28 May 2022 15:20:45 GMT

Did you try to search for it?

Start with simple search: https://www.google.com/search?q=cci+icd10

Which finds this page:

https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/chronic_icd10/chronic_icd10.jsp#:~:text=The%20Chronic%20Condition%20Indicator%20(CCI,Research%20and%20Quality%20(AHRQ).

Which has this description:

https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/chronic_icd10/CCI-ICD10CM-User-Guide-v2021-1.pdf

That clearly says it has a SAS macro.