medicalcoder: A Unified and Longitudinally Aware Framework for ICD-Based Comorbidity Assessment
Provides comorbidity classification algorithms such as the Pediatric Complex Chronic Conditions (PCCC), Charlson, and Elixhauser indices, supports longitudinal comorbidity flagging across encounters, and includes utilities for working with medical coding schemas such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
| Version: | 0.8.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Suggests: | data.table, dplyr, kableExtra, knitr, R.utils, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2026-02-22 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.medicalcoder |
| Author: | Peter DeWitt 
[aut, cre, cov],
Tell Bennett
[ctb],
Seth Russell
[ctb],
Meg Rebull [ctb],
Vincent Rubinetti
[cov] |
| Maintainer: | Peter DeWitt <peter.dewitt at cuanschutz.edu> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/dewittpe/medicalcoder/issues |
| License: | BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE |
| URL: | http://www.peteredewitt.com/medicalcoder/, https://github.com/dewittpe/medicalcoder/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-US |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | medicalcoder results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | medicalcoder.html , medicalcoder.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Charlson Comorbidities (source, R code) Comorbidities (source, R code) Elixhauser Comorbidities (source, R code) ICD Codes (source, R code) Pediatric Complex Chronic Conditions (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | medicalcoder_0.8.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: medicalcoder_0.7.0.zip, r-release: medicalcoder_0.7.0.zip, r-oldrel: medicalcoder_0.7.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): medicalcoder_0.8.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): medicalcoder_0.8.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): medicalcoder_0.7.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): medicalcoder_0.7.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | medicalcoder archive |
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