Social work services in home health care: Challenges for the new Prospective Payment System era

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 23-36

  Lee, Ji Seon ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers to services; Focus group; Home health care; Medicare; Prospective Payment System; Social work roles; Social work services

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; SOCIAL WORK; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; SOCIAL WORK; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0036378699     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v35n03_02     Document Type: Article

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