All the measures apart from the Charlson score showed a trend of decreasing surgery rates with increasing morbidity: the trend was steeper with eFI and only modest with the other measures.
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Influence of pre-existing multimorbidity on receiving a hip arthroplasty: cohort study of 28 025 elderly subjects from UK primary care.
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The crude incidence rates of surgery show a decreasing trend with increasing level of morbidity.
These results show a marked trend of decreasing likelihood of surgery with increasing levels of morbidity, however defined.