title: Record keeping: directions for the 1990s.
abstract: In studies conducted in the late 1980s, managers and direct service workers agreed that their biggest record-keeping problems were caused by lack of time. This article describes how 114 agencies in 20 states tried to resolve this problem Agencies were more successful when they simplified recording and allocated new resources to the task. This article outlines the techniques these agencies used and contrasts those that were more successful with those that had mixed or poor results. The findings suggest directions for record keeping in social services agencies in the 1990s, when agencies will face critical choices about how to use limited resources.
authors: School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
authors: J D
authors: JD
authors: Kagle
mesh_terms: D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008331:Management Information Systems; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D014481:United States; D014941:Work Simplification; D016526:Workload