Presurgical evaluation
Improve surgical outcomes with mental health assessments
Surgical procedures and recovery require cooperative effort from patients, doctors, and insurance companies. Make sure your patients are ready to undergo these procedures by identifying risks and positive attributes that could impact successful outcomes. Our presurgical evaluations and mental health assessments provide evidence-based recommendations as you devise an appropriate treatment plan.
Featured resource
This webinar explores the topic of presurgical assessment and provides information about several assessment tools that can help the clinician understand these biopsychosocial variables and how they can predict outcomes.
Presurgical assessment benefits
Identify risks and resilience
High levels of psychological symptomatology are often indicative of patient satisfaction and adverse or sub-optimal surgical outcomes.
Reports developed for integrated care
Comprehensive and evidence-based reports enable collaboration across the multidisciplinary surgical and care team.
Justification for insurers
Research-based and normed on relevant surgical candidates, these industry leading tests are part of a thorough presurgical psychological evaluation often required by medical treatment guidelines.
Products
Explore the following products to find the right presurgical evaluations for your patients.
Millon® Behavioral Medicine Diagnostic (MBMD®)
Helps identify biopsychosocial factors, including coping strategies, that impact individuals' readiness for and response to chronic pain, bariatric, and general surgeries.
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Battery for Health Improvement 2 (BHI™ 2)
Comprehensively identifies primary and secondary biopsychosocial risk factors before surgical intervention.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form® (MMPI-2-RF®) Spine-CIR/Stim-CIR
Reports that identify presurgical risk factors, postsurgical outcome risk, and associated treatment recommendations for spinal cord stimulator and spine surgery procedures.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form® (MMPI-2-RF®) Score Report
Helps assess psychological and behavioral dysfunctions of medical patients, including bariatric surgery candidates.
Eating Inventory
Measures three factors of eating behavior important in developing individualized pre- and post-surgical treatment programs for obesity.
Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI®)
Efficiently measures 16 areas of life satisfaction to inform pre- and post-surgical treatments or services.
Resources
Success stories
- Measuring Both Sides of the Transplant Equation: Psychological Tests Help Evaluate Organ Recipients and Donors
- Medically Oriented Psychological Tests Help Improve Care for Breast Surgery Candidates
- Moving from Failure to Success: The MBMD® Benefits Bariatric Surgeons and Their Patients
- Psychologists Beneficial to Multi-Specialty Bariatric Surgery Center
Miscellaneous resources
- Sample MBMD Bariatric Interpretive Report
- Sample MBMD Pain Patient Presurgical Interpretive Report
- Spinal Cord Stimulation: A Primer and Glossary of Terms
- MMPI-2-RF Spinal Cord Stimulator Candidate Annotated Sample Interpretive Report
- Spine Surgery Candidate Interpretive Report and Spinal Cord Stimulator Candidate Interpretive Report Flyer
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