Sight on social work: the social worker's involvement with the patient undergoing cataract surgery.
A commintment to the concept of total patient care requires consideration of the social and emotional, as well as the physical, problems of the patient. Assessing the quality of the social work service--including adequate attention to problem evaluation, social treatment, and outcome--can help to assure that patients will return to as high a level of social functioning as possible.
D000368:Aged; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012947:Social Work / Q000592:standards*