Pre-Surgical Psychological Evaluations

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.

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Presurgical Evaluations Webinar (Recording)

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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.

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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.

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.

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