Charlson Comorbidity Index

So metabolic health, how can we look at this? And in the clinic, I'm sure some people are just having a conversation, trying to see if this person has obesity, if they smoke, if they have any additional medical conditions.

One quick, easy way to also look at all of this, generally speaking, is the Charlson Comorbidity Index.

So again, short survey.

Maybe you can have people do these three, the OSPRO, the Widespread Pain Index, and the Charlson Comorbidity Index.

And with the Charlson Comorbidity Index, you get a sense of how is the metabolic health of this person.

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They also collected two severity indices, so the Emergency Severity Index triages acuity from level one, which is the most urgent, to level five, which is the least urgent.

And then they also collected the Charlson comor-comorbidity index, which estimates comorbidity burden and one-year mortality risk.

And so a score of zero is lowest risk, while a score of five or more corresponds to roughly eighty-five percent estimated one-year mortality.

And so these are just to help the authors gauge how sick the population was.

The remainder was self-pay or unknown.

Looking at the Emergency Severity Index data, about forty-one percent of patients were level one and forty percent were level two, so roughly eighty percent of these patients were of highest acuity.

The median Charlson Comorbidity Index was three, which corresponds to substantial comorbidity burden.

Most patients were treated at the one academic medical center, about seventy percent.