Aims: To determine the role of treatment and client characteristics associated with the achievement of continuous heroin abstinence.
Chan KS, Wenzel S, Orlando M, Montagnet C, Mandell W, Becker K, Ebener P. How important are client characteristics to understanding treatment process in the therapeutic community?
To explore the extent to which client characteristics, decision-maker attributes, and country influence judgments of institutional long-term care (ILTC) appropriateness for people with dementia.
Nonstandardized client characteristics, however, also significantly predicted care plan generosity.
Trend tests were used to assess changes in seroprevalence and client characteristics over time.
The relationship of clinician and client characteristics to treatment fidelity and outcomes was examined using hierarchical linear regression.
The relative effects of home care client characteristics on the resource allocation process: do personality and demeanor matter?
Robust regression models estimated the effects of standardized and nonstandardized elderly client characteristics on care plan eligibility level.
PURPOSE: This study measures the differential effects of home care client characteristics typically included in standardized needs assessment protocols, and client characteristics such as attitude or demeanor that arise from the case manager-client interpersonal dynamic during the assessment process, on care plan decisions.
Conclusions: Our results show that information on client characteristics available from inpatient stay records is useful in predicting not only the length of inpatient stay but also the length of the subsequent community stay.
RESULTS: Client characteristics of physical functioning, psychological functioning, and resources best predicted care plan generosity, in accordance with home care program policy to match services with standardized cues of client need.
