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Discharge readiness: The similarity of social workers' and technicians' ratings of discharge criteria to a “Community Consensus”

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A discharge readiness questionnaire was sent to social workers and technicians of a state psychiatric hospital, and to seven community groups. The overall importance-ratings (mean weights, on a scale from 1 to 3) assigned to scale items were compared among the nine groups. It was found that hospital social workers ascribed less importance to patient behaviors as criteria for discharge than did most other groups. However, technicians showed significant overlap with a Community Consensus (the set of items weighted as Very Important by at least four out of seven community groups) while hospital social workers did not.

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  1. Fergus falls State Hospital, Box 157, Fergus Falls, Minnesota

    Milton R. Ravensborg M.A. (Director of Research) & Maurice Reyerson M.S.W. (Chief Social Worker)

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Ravensborg, M.R., Reyerson, M. Discharge readiness: The similarity of social workers' and technicians' ratings of discharge criteria to a “Community Consensus”. Community Ment Health J 6, 222–228 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01435920

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