TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring inpatient psychosocial severity
T2 - A progress report on the development of an instrument
AU - Hedblom, Janice E.
PY - 1988/3/30
Y1 - 1988/3/30
N2 - The changes in payment for hospital care underscore social workers’ efforts to account more effectively for services, productivity and costs. This paper reports on the development of a multidimensional scale designed to augment social work accounting methods by measuring the severity or inpatients’ psychosocial problems. A description of the scale, the process of its development, examples of severity levels and rating methods are included, as are reliability and validity considerations. The functions of the Psychosocial Severity Index are described including its purpose, its unique organization of patient information, its promotion of more effective medical record documentation and its potentials for use.
AB - The changes in payment for hospital care underscore social workers’ efforts to account more effectively for services, productivity and costs. This paper reports on the development of a multidimensional scale designed to augment social work accounting methods by measuring the severity or inpatients’ psychosocial problems. A description of the scale, the process of its development, examples of severity levels and rating methods are included, as are reliability and validity considerations. The functions of the Psychosocial Severity Index are described including its purpose, its unique organization of patient information, its promotion of more effective medical record documentation and its potentials for use.
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U2 - 10.1300/J010v13n02_06
DO - 10.1300/J010v13n02_06
M3 - Article
C2 - 3131891
AN - SCOPUS:0023918041
SN - 0098-1389
VL - 13
SP - 59
EP - 73
JO - Social Work in Health Care
JF - Social Work in Health Care
IS - 2
ER -