OUT-PATIENT WORK IN GENERAL HOSPITALS.

Social Work in Mental Hospitals and Out-Patient Clinics

The Child Guidance Council has always been interested in demonstrating the value of psychiatric social work for adult patients. As far back as 1927, a worker was loaned to the psychiatric department of a general hospital, but it was not till 1930 that a beginning was made in introducing such workers into hospitals dealing with acute mental patients. In 1929 permission had been obtained for stud...

Patient Flow Analysis in General Hospitals: How Clinical Disciplines Affect Outpatient Wait Times

Background: Overcrowding is an important problem for outpatient services in healthcare facilities. Patient flow analysis (PFA) is a useful method for identifying inefficiencies in and facilitating patient flow. Objective: PFA was used to estimate patient wait time and determine how different clinical disciplines impact wait times in the studied hospital.<...

Mental Hospitals at Work

a study of social work in general hospitals in iran and designing a model for social work services

conclusions the duties of social workers have been defined in the three domains of psychosocial health, psychosocial treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation. results the findings of the research indicate that social work headquarters have had a weak performance in introducing social work as a specialized profession. their performance in establishing relationship with scientific centers has be...

Development and implementation of a Monte Carlo frame work for evaluation of patient specific out- of - field organ equivalent dose

Background: The aim of this study was to develop and implement a Monte Carlo framework for evaluation of patient specific out-of-field organ equivalent dose (OED). Materials and Methods: Dose calculations were performed using a Monte Carlo-based model of Oncor linac and tomographic phantoms. Monte Carlo simulations were performed using EGSnrc user codes. Dose measurements were performed using r...