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Preoperative severe pain, decreased function, and high anxiety levels increase preoperative anxiety in patients who underwent primary total knee arthroplasty
2024-05-02
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Patients experience clinically significant anxiety from the time they are recommended to undergo total knee arthroplasty (TKA). This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a preoperative intervention regarding anxiety levels in patients undergoing TKA for knee osteoarthritis (OA) and to evaluate whether patient characteristics affect the effectiveness of the intervention according to a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9a0265eb-f16a-54cd-923c-9819c9138e13
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4287153/v1
