TY - JOUR
T1 - Decisions regarding the order of opening multiple high-risk cases
T2 - A pilot study in an urban hospital
AU - Holden, Gary
AU - Cuzzi, Lawrence F.
AU - Grob, Gail G.
AU - Bazer, Carolyn
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1995/12/4
Y1 - 1995/12/4
N2 - Decision making is central to social work practice. Decision making has been extensively researched outside of the field of social work. Within the field some work has been done regarding decision making, but much remains to be done. A pilot study was undertaken to describe how hospital social workers decide to open a specific case when they have to choose among multiple high-risk cases and the guidelines for case openings do not dictate a specific choice. The results indicate that social workers in this setting do not view the various established high-risk factors as equally important. Rather, decisions were based on an integration of explicit and implicit high risk factors developed by workers over time.
AB - Decision making is central to social work practice. Decision making has been extensively researched outside of the field of social work. Within the field some work has been done regarding decision making, but much remains to be done. A pilot study was undertaken to describe how hospital social workers decide to open a specific case when they have to choose among multiple high-risk cases and the guidelines for case openings do not dictate a specific choice. The results indicate that social workers in this setting do not view the various established high-risk factors as equally important. Rather, decisions were based on an integration of explicit and implicit high risk factors developed by workers over time.
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U2 - 10.1300/J010v22n01_03
DO - 10.1300/J010v22n01_03
M3 - Article
C2 - 8693397
AN - SCOPUS:0029591924
SN - 0098-1389
VL - 22
SP - 37
EP - 55
JO - Social Work in Health Care
JF - Social Work in Health Care
IS - 1
ER -