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Comparison of 3 methods for calculating presence of a comorbidity for a patient using billing data: an updated coding from the AHRQ which uses diagnosis-related group (DRG) codes to mask non-comorbid conditions, the same coding without the DRG masking, and finally an alternative coding that does not use DRG masking, proposed by Quan et al.28
