Menke et al. [ 14] reported a co-morbidity of 28.1% in patients older than 80 years, and Wolters et al. [ 8] incidences of 49% for hypertension, 18% for coronary heart disease, and 39% for pulmonary disease, equivalent to our total co-morbidity frequency of 80%, compared to 55% in the younger patient group (p = 0.0001).
Messerschmidt et al. [ 13] compared 195 VLBWI born after IVF with 1228 naturally conceived VLBWI, and found no difference in mortality, short term pulmonary morbidity, severe cerebral morbidity and frequency of SGA babies.
Delineation of neonatal outcomes by delivery gestational age is needed to further clarify the continuum of mortality and morbidity frequencies among preterm neonates.
We therefore focussed on these health areas of particular relevance to general practice when investigating the association between morbidity and frequency of patient visits to a GP.
In Bonomo et al.'s [ 20] study of Australian 16 17-year-olds 16 17-year-olds 16 17-year-oldsking, psychiatric morbidity and high frequency of alcohol consexualon had strong independent associations.
Along with medical co-morbidities, an increased frequency of prenatal and perinatal complications has been reported in children with ASD [44].
The patients who experienced lower HRQL described co-morbidities, a higher frequency of stigma fears, self-reported adverse symptoms and were more likely to be on disability pensions.
Headaches can result in substantial morbidity, including a high frequency of school absences [2] and reduced overall quality of life [3].
We need to enable universal local and specialty outcome measures such as reduced morbidity, longevity and reduced frequency of check-ins but with the intelligence of associating critical demographic and care team interventional data.
Table 2 shows the frequency of morbidity and mortality outcomes.
Recently, the incidence and the frequency of morbidity and mortality from C. difficile infection (CDI) have increased [ 1, 2].
