A strategy for assessing costs of implementing new practices in the child welfare system: adapting the English cost calculator in the United States.
A strategy for assessing costs of implementing new practices in the child welfare system: adapting the English cost calculator in the United States.
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评估在儿童福利体系中实施新做法的成本的策略：在美国采用英语成本计算器。
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10.1007/s10488-010-0318-8
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2011
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Landsverk,John
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Chamberlain,Patricia;Snowden,LonnieR;Padgett,Courtenay;Saldana,Lisa;Roles,Jennifer;Holmes,Lisa;Ward,Harriet;Soper,Jean;Reid,John;Landsverk,John
在决定采用和实施儿童福利方面的新做法或创新时，费用往往是一个底线考虑因素。成本计算器，在英格兰开发的方法，可用于计算单位成本的核心个案工作活动和相关的行政费用，被描述为一个潜在的有用的工具，协助儿童福利管理人员评估成本的现行做法相对于他们的成果，并可能影响决定是否实施新的做法。的过程中，成本计算器被改编为在美国儿童福利系统中使用的两个国家的描述和使用的方法来比较两种干预方法的说明。
In decisions to adopt and implement new practices or innovations in child welfare, costs are often a bottom-line consideration. The cost calculator, a method developed in England that can be used to calculate unit costs of core case work activities and associated administrative costs, is described as a potentially helpful tool for assisting child welfare administrators to evaluate the costs of current practices relative to their outcomes and could impact decisions about whether to implement new practices. The process by which the cost calculator is being adapted for use in US child welfare systems in two states is described and an illustration of using the method to compare two intervention approaches is provided.