Operative Treatment is Not Associated with More Relief of Depression Symptoms than Nonoperative Treatment in Patients with Common Hand Illness.
CONCLUSIONS: Given that operative treatment of hand pathology is not generally associated with a decrease in depression symptoms, our results support treating comorbid depression as a separate illness rather than as a secondary effect of pain or physical limitations.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level II, therapeutic study.
PMID: 32097128 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Crijns TJ, Bernstein DN, Gonzalez R, Wilbur D, Ring D, Hammert WC Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research
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