Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
5-1947
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.S.W.
Department
Social Work
Committee Chair
Mathisen, Mathilda
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Caswell, Grace B.
Committee Member
Kutak, Robert I.
Subject
Veterans Administration Hospital (Louisville, Ky.); Veterans' hospitals--Admission and discharge--Kentucky--Louisville; Veterans' hospitals--Kentucky--Louisville--Admission and discharge
Abstract
This is a study of patients readmitted to Nichols Veterans Administration Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky during the period of April through December of 1946. This particular project was undertaken because on general observation, there appeared to be an unusual number of patients being readmitted to the hospital after having received "maximum hospital benefits" at a previous hospital admission and having been discharged "improved". To bear out this observation, a sample study was made over a ten day period and it was found that 14 percent of all the patients being admitted were readmissions. Since this was true, the question arose as to why so many patients sought readmission.
Recommended Citation
LaCourse, Jeanne, "A study of veterans readmitted to Nichols Veterans Administration Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, after having been discharged "improved" and received "maximum hospital benefits" from April through December, 1946." (1947). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1992.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/1992
