Depression After Spinal Surgery: A Comparative Analysis of the California Outcomes Database.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the relative incidence of newly recorded diagnosis of depression after spinal surgery as a proxy for the risk of post-spinal surgery depression.

Patients and methods

We used the longitudinal California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development database (January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2010) to identify patients who underwent spinal surgery during these years. Patients with documented depression before surgery were excluded. Risk of new postoperative depression was determined via the incidence of newly recorded depression on any hospitalization subsequent to surgery. For comparison, this risk was also determined for patients hospitalized during the same time period for coronary artery bypass grafting, hysterectomy, cholecystectomy, chronic

SUBMITTER: Wilson BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5426910 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature