Rachel Rosser
Biographic Data
| ID | 4011750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Rosser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosser |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maudsley Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The quantification of health
Selection and outcome in in‐patient psychotherapy
In a retrospective study of 28 successive admissions for in‐patient psychotherapy, the following characteristics have been identified as predictors of favourable outcome: a diagnosis of neurotic psychopathology; superior intelligence; considerable depression; and minimal previous out‐patient treatment. Two alternative sets of decision rules are presented which might be used as a guide in deciding whether to admit patients. More rigorous selection…
The Reliability and Application of Clinical Judgment in Evaluating the Use of Hospital Beds
A technique is described which circumvents the difficulty in obtaining reliable judgments by clinicians on cases of inappropriate use of hospital beds. By application of the Delphi method of measuring group expert opinion, convergence was achieved in the estimate, by four physicians, of the total number of bed days wasted on a medical ward during a period of two weeks. Cases of possible misutilization were identified by the author and a second st…
Recent Studies Using a Global Approach to Measuring Illness
Global measures of illness are designed to measure the performance of a health service as a whole and the contribution of its various components. Such measures convert data about the outcome of medical care into information for use in planning at all administrative levels including the highest levels of government. This is achieved by means of a classification of states of illness applicable to all patients, whatever their diagnosis and symptoms,…
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The Reliability and Application of Clinical Judgment in Evaluating the Use of Hospital Beds
A technique is described which circumvents the difficulty in obtaining reliable judgments by clinicians on cases of inappropriate use of hospital beds. By application of the Delphi method of measuring group expert opinion, convergence was achieved in the estimate, by four physicians, of the total number of bed days wasted on a medical ward during a period of two weeks. Cases of possible misutilization were identified by the author and a second st…
Recent Studies Using a Global Approach to Measuring Illness
Global measures of illness are designed to measure the performance of a health service as a whole and the contribution of its various components. Such measures convert data about the outcome of medical care into information for use in planning at all administrative levels including the highest levels of government. This is achieved by means of a classification of states of illness applicable to all patients, whatever their diagnosis and symptoms,…
Selection and outcome in in‐patient psychotherapy
In a retrospective study of 28 successive admissions for in‐patient psychotherapy, the following characteristics have been identified as predictors of favourable outcome: a diagnosis of neurotic psychopathology; superior intelligence; considerable depression; and minimal previous out‐patient treatment. Two alternative sets of decision rules are presented which might be used as a guide in deciding whether to admit patients. More rigorous selection…
The quantification of health
Computer Science (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Citation (1 works) · Clinical Psychology (1 works)