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- Title
OF DIRTY SHEETS AND WORSE: ADMINISTRATION COSTS AND STAFFING MATTERS.
- Authors
Keigher, Sharon M.
- Abstract
This article presents information on an article published in July 1981 issue of the periodical `Social Work' entitled `Dirty Sheets: A Multivariate Analysis,' by Henry Miller. Miller complained that the plethora of problems confronting urban society were escalating beyond control and worse, that neither his social work students nor the profession seemed to care. He'd been told not to worry, that social work always does well in bad times. The worse things get the better off the profession. Therefore, Miller reasoned, it was time for the social workers. However, according to Miller, They've changed things around this time. They are not the cure anymore-they are the disease. He spelled out the new "cure": "They've called in the accountants and the scientists this time around. Things are changing quickly in hospitals, however and believe it or not, the businesses, governments and scientists who play information hardball are actually dreaming up ways to justify the collection of more, not less, data. Alternative performance measurement methods are constantly being proposed. One method is to track not only hospitals' spending and performance, but that of HMOs and large health care delivery organizations themselves, using ouputs rather than activities as the unit of performance measurement.
- Subjects
SOCIAL services; MULTIVARIATE analysis; SOCIAL workers; HOSPITALS; HEALTH services administration; SOCIAL Work (Periodical)
- Publication
Health & Social Work, 1993, Vol 18, Issue 4, p302
- ISSN
0360-7283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hsw/18.4.302