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TABLE 1 - PROBABILITY OF SURVIVAL BASED ON THE CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX GROUP
Survival
Low*
Medium
High
Very High
1 - year
0.98
0.89
0.79
0.64
2 - year
0.95
0.80
0.70
0.35

*Low indicates a score of ≤ 3; moderate indicates a score of a 4 or 5; high indicates a score of a 6 or 7; and very high indicates a score of ≥8. This table is based on the Figure below from Beddhu S, Bruns FJ, Saul M, Seddon P, Zeidel ML: A Simple Comorbidity Scale Predicts Clinical Outcomes and Costs in Dialysis Patients. The American Journal of Medicine 108:609-613, 2000

.Kaplan-Meier plot of patient survival by Chalrson Comorbidity Index score.

 

Goldwasser P, Mittman N, Antignani A, Burrell D, Michel MA, Collier J, Avram MM:Predictors of mortality in hemodialysis patients. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 3:1613-22, 1993

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