Client outcome prognostic system
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Title |
Client outcome prognostic system |
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Author |
Pratt, Elizabeth Ann |
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Date |
1979 |
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Affiliation/College |
College of Graduate Studies |
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Department |
Biometry |
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Extent |
vii, 248 leaves : ill.; 28 cm |
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Source |
W 84 AA1 P913c 1979 |
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Subject.MeSH |
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
Academic Dissertations |
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Collection |
MUSC Theses and Dissertations |
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Contributing Institution |
Waring Historical Library (MUSC) |
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Rights |
Copyright is held by the author. |
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Language |
English |
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Type |
Text |
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Format |
application/pdf |
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Media Type |
Manuscripts |
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Resource Identifier |
mtd1979_pratt_ea |
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Abstract |
A computerized system was developed at the Medical University of South Carolina for the Oklahoma State Computer Facility to input, edit, and retrieve information from the individual record of each client of the Rehabilitative Services Division of the Oklahoma Department of Institutions Social and Rehabilitative Services. This information is used to establish a current status profile for the client in five areas of interest: (a) economic/vocational functioning, (b) physical functioning, (c) psychosocial functioning, (d) family relationships, (e) educational functioning. Upon entering the rehabilitation program, five of the client’s demographic attributes, age, sex, race, martial status, and disability, are analyzed in order to retrieve from the information base the prognostic distribution appropriate to the client. This information is reported in the form of a transition matrix identifying the client’s current status and the probability of effecting change of a given magnitude in the five areas of interest based upon the agency’s past experience with patients of this particular background. At closure, the client’s status is again evaluated in the five areas of interest, and the difference between his initial and final statuses is considered a measure of the change effected by vocational rehabilitation. Reports are produced for each counselor indicating the number and percentage of his clients undergoing various status changes in the five areas of interest. Regional and statewide reports are also produced indicating the number and percentage of clients in the region and state undergoing various status changes in the five areas of interest. Each year new prognostic transition matrices are generated, making use of the information obtained during the year in order to produce more accurate probabilities. These matrices are tested for homogeneity within the demographic categories and are collapsed whenever possible. |
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