Correlation between patient health questionnaire-2 and postoperative pain in laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Yusom ShinTae Woo ParkHuiyoung KimDong-Jin ShimHochul LeeJoo-Duck KimDong Hee KangPublished in: Anesthesia and pain medicine (2020)
We observed a correlation between the PHQ-2 score and postoperative pain. Therefore, PHQ-2 could be useful as a screening test for preoperative depression. Particularly, when 3 points were used as the cut-off score, the PHQ-2 score was associated with the dosage of analgesics, and the analgesic demand could be expected to be high with higher PHQ-2 scores.