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Presents a working document which attempts to clarify the concept of evaluation and its applicability to health service systems. Discussion on the concept of evaluation with focus on college health services; Analysis of the health service process; Objectives of health service systems; Typology of health service systems at colleges and universities.

Comments on a working paper about evaluation, by Donald M. Du Bois from the University of California, Los Angeles, for discussion at the Fifth National Conference on Health in College Communities. Contribution of the paper on knowledge about methods for measuring the effectiveness of health service systems; Discussion on challenge of evaluating personal health services or quality of medical care; Role of chargeable health impairment unit in the overall evaluation of the total health program of the educational institution.

This paper describes and discusses the evolution and operation of a patient advisory committee to a family planning program. The concerns and activities which have occupied the Committee are presented. Successes and frustrations of professionals and consumers are elucidated and changes in progress are noted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores problems in delegating aspects of the physician's work to others. The relative merits of using assistants vs. associates is discussed in terms of productivity, legal issues, role relationships and training programs. Also considered are the quality of care and its evaluation, future manpower pools, and consumer acceptance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluation is an increasingly important, time-consuming part of the medical care system. Use of explicit criteria in making such judgments has been recommended to promote consistency and fairness. This paper extends the use of criteria to screening so as to reduce the time physicians spend in evaluation. Can criteria be explicit and complete enough so that a suitably trained non-physician can use them with acceptable accuracy? If so, physicians could concentrate on cases selected by the non-physicians, rather than on cases arbitrarily or randomly selected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the music therapy assessment as a basic requirement for determining objectives for patients and methodological procedures to be followed. It mentions the definitions of various terms such as "assessment" and "evaluation," and the rationales behind establishing the music therapy assessment procedure. It offers information on the categories of data to be collected including the Factual Information, Therapy Recommendations, and the Evaluation of Assessment Results.

Programmed instruction was developed to be used to teach patients discharged from a hospital on long-term anticoagulant therapy. Results indicate that much instruction was effective in achieving the desired results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]