Impact of Psychiatric Diagnoses and Treatment on Postoperative Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Surgery for Colorectal Cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: Preoperative psychiatric diagnoses were associated with worse postoperative outcomes. Surgical quality-improvement efforts should focus on identifying patients with preoperative psychiatric diagnoses and addressing these conditions presurgery. PMID: 33557593 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Psychiatric Services - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatr Serv Source Type: research