VIDEO: Psychosocial assessment may benefit pediatric patients with cerebral palsy
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Key takeaways:
- Patients who underwent psychosocial assessment after spine fusion had decreased length of stay.
- Patients who had hip surgery had no difference in length of stay due to assessment status.
In this video, M. Wade Shrader, MD, discussed the impact of preoperative psychosocial assessment on length of stay in pediatric patients with cerebral palsy undergoing hip reconstruction or spinal fusion.
“Overall, we found that there was a slightly decreased length of stay for kids that had spine fusion and had biopsychosocial assessment compared to those that did not,” Shrader, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Nemours Children’s Health, said about results presented at the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America Annual Meeting.
“This study was a call to action for us to start being more aware of this, start assessing the biopsychosocial state of our families and then try to come up with some solutions to try to improve the lives of these kids,” he concluded.
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Shrader MW, et al. Preoperative psychosocial assessment in pediatric patients with cerebral palsy decreases length of stay after spine fusion. Presented at: Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America Annual Meeting; April 26-28, 2023; Nashville, Tennessee.
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