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Depression and Functional Outcomes in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Low Back Pain.

Joshua RingSarah PeskoeCongwen ZhaoBenjamin W FriedmanSteven Z GeorgeStephanie A Eucker
Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2020)
Significant positive temporal associations exist between initial severity and 3-month progression of depressive symptoms and 3-month pain intensity and disability outcomes for ED patients with LBP. Future work is needed to investigate whether behavioral interventions initiated from the ED may mitigate the incidence and severity of LBP-related chronic pain and functional impairments.
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