The impact of depression and anxiety disorders on postoperative outcomes for patients having total hip or knee arthroplasty: Protocol of a meta-analytic study from cohort studies

• Liang Lin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LL, QZ and MX are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, The First Hospital of Putian City, The School of Clinical Medicine, Fujian Medical University, Putian, Fujian, China

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• Qing Zhang ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  ¶‡ LL, QZ and MX are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China

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• Min Xu ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  ¶‡ LL, QZ and MX are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China

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• Zhihong Xiao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  * E-mail: 35042875@qq.com (GX); x35042875@foxmail.com (ZX); herrmayor@126.com (ZM)

  Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Lishui People’s Hospital, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Lishui, China

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• Guosong Xu ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: 35042875@qq.com (GX); x35042875@foxmail.com (ZX); herrmayor@126.com (ZM)

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, The First Hospital of Putian City, The School of Clinical Medicine, Fujian Medical University, Putian, Fujian, China

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• Zubing Mei

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 35042875@qq.com (GX); x35042875@foxmail.com (ZX); herrmayor@126.com (ZM)

  Affiliations Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Anorectal Disease Institute of Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5012-957X

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