1st Edition
Clinical Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research Social Work in Hospital Settings
210 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
Design more effective social work programs with research data from your clinical files! A well-planned research program helps social workers provide consistent, effective services to their clients, but stretched budgets and tight schedules make it difficult to find the resources for data gathering. Clinical Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research shows how you can use the existing records already... Read more
- 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
Biography
Irwin Epstein, Susan Blumenfield
