Trajectories of Postoperative Depressive Symptoms in Older Patients Undergoing Major Surgery

Irena Cenzer; Sharon K Inouye; Patrick J Raue; Christina Keny; Zara Cooper; Victoria L Tang

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.54154

Trajectories of Postoperative Depressive Symptoms in Older Patients Undergoing Major Surgery

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jan 2;7(1):e2354154. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.54154.

Authors

Irena Cenzer¹, Sharon K Inouye^{2

3}, Patrick J Raue⁴, Christina Keny^{1

5

6}, Zara Cooper^{7

8}, Victoria L Tang^{1

9}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco.
² Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.
⁵ Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California.
⁶ School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco.
⁷ Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁸ Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁹ Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study examines the trajectories of postoperative depressive symptoms in older patients undergoing major surgery and the differences in patient characteristics between the trajectory groups.

MeSH terms

Aged
Depression* / epidemiology
Humans
Postoperative Period*