The impact of anxiety and depression on lumbar spine surgical outcomes: a Michigan Spine Surgery Improvement Collaborative study

CONCLUSIONS: The authors observed an association between a history of anxiety and depression and negative outcome after lumbar spine surgery. In addition, they found an additive effect of a history of both anxiety and depression with an increased risk of negative outcome when compared with either anxiety or depression alone.PMID:38427985 | DOI:10.3171/2023.12.SPINE23860

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - March 1, 2024 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Nachiket Deshpande Moustafa Hadi Tarek R Mansour Edvin Telemi Travis Hamilton Jianhui Hu Lonni Schultz David R Nerenz Jad G Khalil Richard Easton Miguelangelo Perez-Cruet Ilyas Aleem Paul Park Teck Soo Doris Tong Muwaffak Abdulhak Jason M Schwalb Victor C Source Type: research