The Role of a Social Worker in the Deep Brain Stimulation Preoperative Evaluation: The DBS-FACTS Screening Tool.

IF 2.6 4区医学 Q2 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY Movement Disorders Clinical Practice Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI:10.1002/mdc3.70026

Amanda D Currie, Rachael M Burke, Alfonso Enrique Martinez Nunez, Alana McKay, Christopher W Hess, Justin D Hilliard, Michael S Okun

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Abstract

Background: Social workers (SW) are part of multidisciplinary teams for many surgical disciplines. Their role in deep brain stimulation (DBS) presurgical evaluations has not been defined.

Objectives: The goal was to characterize the role of SWs in a multidisciplinary DBS presurgical evaluation team and to construct a screening tool to identify patients who could benefit from a preoperative SW consultation.

Methods: A retrospective chart review was conducted on 100 consecutive patients.

Results: Ninety-seven subjects met with the SW. The median age was 68 years; 52% were female. Eight roles for the DBS SW were identified. The SW recommended follow-up for two subjects, and four additional subjects contacted the SW subsequently.

Conclusions: This study revealed how SWs could be integrated into DBS presurgical evaluations. Because most patients do not have specific SW needs, the mnemonic DBS-FACTS (finances, advance care planning, caregivers, transportation, and suicide risk) may identify patients who could benefit from SW consultation.

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Movement Disorders Clinical Practice CLINICAL NEUROLOGY-

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4.00

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7.50%

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218

期刊介绍： Movement Disorders Clinical Practice- is an online-only journal committed to publishing high quality peer reviewed articles related to clinical aspects of movement disorders which broadly include phenomenology (interesting case/case series/rarities), investigative (for e.g- genetics, imaging), translational (phenotype-genotype or other) and treatment aspects (clinical guidelines, diagnostic and treatment algorithms)