What Factors are Associated With Quality Of Life, Pain Interference, Anxiety, and Depression in Patients With Metastatic Bone Disease?

CONCLUSIONS: Impending pathologic fractures should be treated promptly to prevent deterioration in QOL, anxiety, and depression. Our normative data can be used to compare and interpret results of similar patients or patient groups. Future studies could focus on specific cancers metastasizing to the bone, to further understand which patients are at risk for worse patient-reported outcomes.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, prognostic study.
PMID: 27752988 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - October 16, 2016 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: van der Vliet QM, Paulino Pereira NR, Janssen SJ, Hornicek FJ, Ferrone ML, Bramer JA, van Dijk CN, Schwab JH Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research