Doremus B L
Health Soc Work. 1976 Nov;1(4):120-39. doi: 10.1093/hsw/1.4.120.
As limited stays in the hospital become more the rule, a patient's record must be comprehensive enough to include both his medical condition and the social problems that may accompany it. The conceptual model presented in this article -- the four Rs of the medical-social diagnosis -- can be used as a checklist to insure rapid and systematic intervention.
