Clinical Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research : Social Work in Hospital Settings

ISBN-13: 9780789017086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 216 str.

Irwin Epstein; Susan Blumenfield

Opis

In this collection of ten articles, 19 social workers most affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital demonstrate how practitioner use of a single practice-based research strategy can inform social work practice and programs in health care settings. An introductory chapter discusses administrative strategies to promote reflective social work practice. Ch

Spis treści

• Foreword
• Introduction: Promoting and Maintaining a Reflective Professional Staff in a Hospital-Based Social Work Department
• Using Available Clinical Information in Practice-Based Research: Mining for Silver While Dreaming of Gold
• Screening for Psychosocial Risk in an Urban Prenatal Clinic Population: A Retrospective Practice-Based Research Study
• Psycho-Social Problems Faced by “Frequent Flyers” in a Pediatric Diabetes Unit
• Mining Treatment Termination Data in an Adolescent Mental Health Service: A Quantitative Study
• Social Work Practice with Pre- and Post-Liver Transplant Patients: A Retrospective Self Study
• Dialysis Patient Characteristics and Outcomes: The Complexity of Social Work Practice with the End Stage Renal Disease Population
• Comparing Social Work’s Role in Renal Dialysis in Israel and the United States: The Practice-Based Research Potential of Available Clinical Information
• Mining Clinical Information in the Utilization of Social Services: Practitioners Inform Themselves
• Creating Experimental Analogs with Available Clinical Information: Credible Alternatives to “Gold-Standard” Experiments?
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Irwin Epstein, Susan Blumenfield