Prevalence, injury-, and non-injury-related factors associated with anxiety and depression in polytrauma patients - A retrospective 20 year follow-up study.
Sascha HalvachizadehHenrik TeuberTill BerkFlorin AllemannRoland von KänelBoris ZellePaolo CinelliHans-Christoph PapeRoman PfeiferPublished in: PloS one (2020)
More than half of polytrauma patients developed psychiatric sequelae. Risk factors include mainly non-injury related factors such as psychiatric comorbidities and additional psychiatric insults after the injury.