Estimating risk for pancreatic cancer among 9.4 million veterans in care.
Wang L, Rahimi Larki N, Skanderson M, Tate J, Hauser R, Brandt C, Yang Y, Justice A. Estimating risk for pancreatic cancer among 9.4 million veterans in care. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2024, 42: 10544-10544. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2024.42.16_suppl.10544.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchVeterans Health AdministrationGeneral populationAlcohol useIntegrated health systemElectronic health recordsTen-year riskHistory of cancerLoss to follow-upFollow-upEvaluated model discriminationMedian baseline ageCox proportional hazards modelsRisk prediction modelHealth recordsProportional hazards modelHealth systemHealth AdministrationMultivariate Cox proportional hazards modelSmoking statusCharlson Comorbidity IndexBaseline ageClinical reasoningRange of risksHazards modelFinal predictorsCombining Charlson comorbidity and VACS indices improves prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality for patients with and without HIV in the Veterans Health Administration
McGinnis K, Justice A, Marconi V, Rodriguez-Barradas M, Hauser R, Oursler K, Brown S, Bryant K, Tate J, Study F. Combining Charlson comorbidity and VACS indices improves prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality for patients with and without HIV in the Veterans Health Administration. Frontiers In Medicine 2024, 10: 1342466. PMID: 38356736, PMCID: PMC10864663, DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1342466.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCharlson Comorbidity IndexVACS IndexHIV RNAVeterans Health AdministrationComorbid diseasesNon-AIDS conditionsCongestive heart failureAssociated with CD4Risk of mortalityMedian ageHepatitis C.Older age groupsCharlson comorbidityCD4Prognostic accuracyHeart failurePWoHComorbidity indexVA careKidney diseasePWHHIVMatched comparatorsBaseline predictorsClinical biomarkers