Does pre-existing morbidity influences risks and benefits of total hip replacement for osteoarthritis: a prospective study of 6682 patients from linked national datasets in England.

ABSTRACT: Total hip arthroplasty (THA) surgery for elderly people with multimorbidity increases the risk of serious health hazards including mortality. Whether such background morbidity reduces the clinical benefit is less clear.

Objective

To evaluate how pre-existing health status, using multiple approaches, influences risks of, and quality of life benefits from, THA.

Setting

Longitudinal record linkage study of a UK sample linking their primary care to their secondary care records.

Participants

A total of 6682 patients were included, based on the recording of the diagnosis of hip osteoarthritis in a national primary care register and the recording of the receipt of THA in a national secondary care register.Data were extracted from the primary care register on background health

SUBMITTER: Ferguson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8461685 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature