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Do preoperative psychological factors predict poor outcome in patients undergoing TKA?
Do preoperative psychological factors predict poor outcome in patients undergoing TKA?
Comprehensive psychological assessment may be required to understand the long-term effect of psychological factors on TKA outcomes and dissatisfaction rates.
Clinicians should integrate comprehensive psychological assessment into TKA preoperative planning; extends evidence on long-term dissatisfaction predictors.
The preoperative psychological state of a patient may affect the outcome after a TKA. A comprehensive psychological assessment of patients is required to examine the long-term effect of such psychological factors on the eventual outcomes of TKA once the recovery phase is complete and to assess the effect that treatment for these psychological conditions may have on decreasing the dissatisfaction rate with TKA in this population.
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Khatib et al. (2015) studied this question.
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