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ROLE OF THE MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER IN AN OPHTHALMOLOGIC SERVICE
MABEL LEE PRICE, M.S.
Arch Ophthal. 1943;29(2):266-272.
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Before the service of a medical social worker especially trained for work with patients in an ophthalmologic service was initiated in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, it was decided to survey the patient group for the preceding year in order to determine what kinds of patients needed social care and how the worker could best concentrate her efforts to benefit the patients and the service. This was deemed desirable because numerous studies have shown much waste of the ophthalmologist's time in the clinic through the patient's lack of understanding of his ophthalmic conditions and, therefore, a failure to carry out the plan of treatment recommended.
During the year 1940, 1,636 new patients came to the ophthalmologic clinic of the University Hospital. Of these every third patient was chosen for the study, making a total of 599. A large sample was taken in this way because it would cover
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PHILADELPHIA
Footnotes
The survey here reported was made with the help of the staff of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Detailed charts and a full discussion of diagnostic groupings are available in the Social Service Department of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and in the office of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness.
At the request of Dr. Francis H. Adler, chief of the Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness and the Social Service Department of the hospital cooperated in placing a medical social worker in the ophthalmologic service.
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