Prolonged Hospitalization: A Study of Factors Prolonging the Stay of Twenty-Five Patients at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City, During the Month of January, 1956
Abstract
As the population of a community changes there is always the possibility of new social problems being created. The present research is the study of the failure of community resources to meet some of the needs of our present population, especially the aged chronically ill.Prolonged hospitalization is a period of time a person remains in a hospital beyond that point at which the medical services can be most advantageous to him. At first, the import of this problem is not apparent until we see it in the light of the tremendous community problem it creates.
Subject Area
Sociology|Recreation
Recommended Citation
Rand, Jerome John, "Prolonged Hospitalization: A Study of Factors Prolonging the Stay of Twenty-Five Patients at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City, During the Month of January, 1956" (1956). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050486.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050486
