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Social Work Services and Patient Decision Making

Social Work Services and Patient Decision Making

Hansen, Patricia

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Series: Routledge Revivals

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1138343501
ISBN13: 9781138343504
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 12 2020
Pages: 148
Language: English

First published in 1998, this timely study of an American acute care hospital examines decision making by patients and their families along with a cost analysis of social work services. The first part focuses on the patient's experience of acute hospital care and the second part examines the factors which influence the use of social work resources in providing services to acute hospital patients. Patients were asked about the treatment and discharge decisions made, the agreements that occurred and the problems they experienced while they were in the hospital and after discharge. Surprisingly, the patients reported little difficulty with the decision making environment although it was evident that many experienced a high level of difficulty once discharged. The second part focuses on the utilization of social work resources for these patients. The study uses an activity based framework to examine the cost drivers for social work intervention. It is the first example of the application of ideas from activity based costing to analysis of social work services in hospital settings.

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