Clinical Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research: Social Work in Hospital Settings

Design more effective social work programs with research data from your clinical files!A well-planned research program helps social workers provide consistent, effective services to their clients, but stretched budgets and tight schedules make it difficult to find the resources for data gathering. Clinical Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research shows how you can use the existing records already kept by every health-care institution as your primary data source. By analyzing documented clinic...