Comorbidities and outcomes: advancing the field comes at a price.
Comorbidities and outcomes: advancing the field comes at a price.
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合并症和结果:该领域的进步是有代价的。
DOI:
10.1016/j.bbmt.2011.10.026
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2011
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Sorror,MohamedL
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Sorror,MohamedL
Transplantation, colleagues from Dresden, Germany, reported on the prognostic impact of the hematopoietic cell transplantation-specific comorbidity index (HCT-CI) among patients diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and treated with allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) using at least 9 different types of conditioning regimens. The authors elected to stratify patients into HCT-CI scores of 0 (5%), 1-2 (21%), and $3 (74%). Multiple analyses failed to show any statistically significant association between the HCT-CI scores and nonrelapse mortality (NRM) or overall survival (OS)[1]. The HCT-CI was found to be associated with outcomes in numerous previous studies [2]. A smaller number of studies with issues related to sample size or lack of sufficient comorbidity data disagreed [2]. The Dresden study is the first with a fair sample size of patients and complete comorbidity data that showed lack of association between HCT-CI scores and outcomes. The benefit of good sample size was relatively offset by multiplicity of regimens and the skewed distribution of patients among risk groups. Although the authors’ suggestion that differences in socioeconomic factors among institutions might, in part, explain the discordant findings is plausible, other reasons seem to play a more prominent role in this study.The 2 points of concern are the inaccurate evaluation of relevant comorbidities and the unbalanced categorization of patients into risk groups despite previous recommendations [3]. The paper included unexpectedly high prevalence of heart valve disease, hepatic comorbidity, and infections. Of note, the HCT-CI
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20.3
作者:
F. Ostronoff;B. Storer;R. Storb;S. Bhatia;R. Maziarz;M. Pulsipher;M. Maris;H. Deeg;P. Martin;F. Appelbaum;D. Maloney;B. Sandmaier;M. Sorror
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M. Sorror
DOI:
10.1182/asheducation-2010.1.237
发表时间:
2010-12-01
影响因子:
3
作者:
Sorror, Mohamed L.
通讯作者:
Sorror, Mohamed L.
影响因子:
4.3
作者:
Birninger, Nicole;Bornhaeuser, Martin;Schetelig, Johannes
通讯作者:
Schetelig, Johannes
影响因子:
20.3
作者:
M. Sorror;F. Ostronoff;R. Storb;S. Bhatia;R. Maziarz;M. Pulsipher;M. Maris;H. Deeg;P. Martin;F. Appelbaum;D. Maloney;B. Sandmaier;B. Storer
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B. Storer