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Figure 4. Variable definitions
Figure 5. Predictive model
ables are given more importance in the model. This indicates yet again that disease staging still has a
somewhat limited relationship to the Charlson Index.
There is no question that these two indices will give wildly divergent results for a substantial portion
of the patient population. For this reason, we need to be very concerned about the use of the results for
reimbursements to providers, and to drill down into details to discover the reasons for this divergence.
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