Social work screening in New Jersey hospitals: progress, problems, and implications.
The essential components of a viable high-risk screening system are identified in this report of a study of social work screening in New Jersey's acute-care hospitals. Although almost every hospital was found to use some form of screening, the most commonly used screening criteria tended to focus narrowly on identifying patients likely to have prolonged hospitalizations. The implications of these and other findings are discussed.
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003933:Diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009515:New Jersey; D010343:Patient Admission; D012306:Risk; D012944:Social Support; D012948:Social Work Department, Hospital; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors