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Using The Johns Hopkins' Aggregated Diagnosis Groups (Adgs) To Predict 1-Year Mortality In Population-Based Cohorts Of Patients With Diabetes In Ontario, Canada, Peter C. Austin
Peter Austin
AIMS: There are limited validated methods to ascertain comorbidities for risk adjustment in ambulatory populations of patients with diabetes using administrative health-care databases. The objective was to examine the ability of the Johns Hopkins' Aggregated Diagnosis Groups to predict mortality in population-based ambulatory samples of both incident and prevalent subjects with diabetes.
METHODS: Retrospective cohorts constructed using population-based administrative data. The incident cohort consisted of all 346,297 subjects diagnosed with diabetes between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2008. The prevalent cohort consisted of all 879,849 subjects with pre-existing diabetes on 1 January, 2007. The outcome was death within 1 …