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 Chang
OBJECTIVE: The presence of depression and anxiety has been associated with negative outcomes in spine surgery patients. While it seems evident that a history of depression or anxiety can negatively influence outcome, the exact additive effect of both has not been extensively studied in a multicenter trial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between a patient's history of anxiety and depression and their patient-reported outcomes (PROs) after lumbar surgery. METHODS: Patients in the Michigan Spine Surgery Improvement Collaborative registry undergoing lumbar spine surgery between July 2016 and December 2021 were grouped into four cohorts: those with a history of anxiety only, those with a history of depression only, those with both, and those with neither...
March 1, 2024: Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine