Biomedical subjects

G Auslander

Publications and source records attributed to G Auslander.

4 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2001

Discharge planning for complex paediatric cases.

The aim of this study was to identify the functions performed by social workers specifically engaged in paediatric discharge planning by undertaking a detailed analysis of discharge planning practice in forty cases referred to a specialist discharge planning team, at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melborne. A second aim was to identify the characteristics that distinguished complex cases from more routine cases. Discharge planning activity focused on the family, community and the organisation, with most cases requiring activity in all three areas. More complex cases were characterised by amount of social work time spent on the case, length of stay and number of discharge planner functions performed, but not number of prior admissions.

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PubMed2001

Comparing social work's role in renal dialysis in Israel and the United States: the practice-based research potential of available clinical information.

This paper demonstrates the use of clinical data-mining in a study of social work interventions with dialysis patients in two countries, the US and Israel. We aimed to examine the role of social workers in improving kidney patient outcomes and to determine the potential of readily available patient information for studying this process. The findings showed considerable differences between the patient samples in both countries, as far as the socio-demographic background was considered. In spite of this, there were numerous similarities in the type of psycho-social problems and reactions, as well as the social workers' interventions. Differences which arose in various patient states and outcomes were examined in light of variations in the health care systems and socio-cultural contexts of renal dialysis in both sites.

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PubMed1999

Gender issues in newspaper coverage of people with disabilities: a Canada-Israel comparison.

This research compared how over a three-month period Canadian and Israeli newspapers wrote about females and males with disabilities. The results showed that in both countries there was significantly greater coverage of males than females. In addition, different (and stereotypical) types of details were used to describe the two groups, and females were associated with different kinds of problems than males, including a higher incidence of violence and victimization. There were also some significant differences between the male and female journalists in this study, and evidence of sexism within the newspaper industry. This paper concludes with some ideas for altering the images of disabled women in the media.

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PubMed1995

Utilizing data to improve practice in hospital social work: a case study.

Health care social work has made important progress in developing methods for assuring and improving the quality of services provided, using tools such as computerized information systems. This paper presents a case study demonstrating utilization of preliminary data generated by such a system, focusing on problem identification and professional interventions. Successive stages in the process of data application are described: definition of quality assurance issues; validation of data; hypothesis formation; in-depth analysis through case examples; and formation of change strategies. Results of the application and its implications for practice are discussed.

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