Coulton C J, Keller S M, Boone C R
Health Soc Work. 1985 Winter;10(1):35-44. doi: 10.1093/hsw/10.1.35.
Increasing concern about productivity in hospitals led to this study of the amount of time social workers typically spend with and in behalf of hospitalized patients. Among the variables the authors studied, the patient's demographic characteristics had little explanatory power, whereas psychosocial acuity, or need for services, and the types of services delivered were the best predictors of the amount of social work time expended in the patient's behalf.
对医院工作效率的日益关注引发了这项关于社会工作者通常花费在住院患者身上以及代表住院患者花费时间的研究。在作者研究的变量中，患者的人口统计学特征几乎没有解释力，而心理社会敏锐度（即服务需求）以及所提供服务的类型是预测代表患者花费社会工作时间的最佳指标。
