Myelodysplastic Syndrome-Specific Comorbidity Index

**Semantic type:** Intellectual Product

**Definition:** A disease-specific comorbidity index developed for predicting the effect of comorbidities on outcomes in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). It combines the effect of five comorbidity factors and identifies three groups of MDS patients with different probabilities of non-leukemic death and survival.

**Synonyms:** - MDS-CI - MDS-CI