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Internal medicine

a comorbidity classification grading coexisting conditions by organ-system severity to adjust outcome comparisons, first used for diabetes mellitus.

In internal medicine, Kaplan-Feinstein index refers to a comorbidity classification grading coexisting conditions by organ-system severity to adjust outcome comparisons, first used for diabetes mellitus. This meaning comes from Kaplan (1974) in Journal of Chronic Diseases.[1]

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Kaplan, M. H., & Feinstein, A. R. (1974). The importance of classifying initial co-morbidity in evaluating the outcome of diabetes mellitus. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 27(7-8), 387-404. https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9681(74)90017-4

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