Preadmission psychosocial screening of older orthopedic surgery patients: Evaluation of a social work service

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1-25

  Epstein, Janet ^a   Turgeman, Amram ^b   Rotstein, Zeev ^c   Horoszowski, Henri ^c   Honig, Penina ^a   Baruch, Leah ^a   Noy, Shlomo ^c  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b College of Management ^*  (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0031862208     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v27n02_01     Document Type: Article

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