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An epidemiological approach to foster care is presented, in which two separate data sets are used to analyze issues of ethnicity and child placement. A national probability sample and a large-city sample are drawn from the 1980 Office of Civil Rights ethnic survey and from the 1980 U.S. Census in order to test several hypotheses on ethnic differences predictive of time in care.

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This paper reports on the findings of a three‐year study to evaluate the results of special treatment services to an experimental group of disturbed children in foster care as compared to a control group of children who received traditional services of a public welfare agency.

Current research suggests that for certain types of gastrointestinal endoscopes, longer shelf life (the interval of storage after which endoscopes should be reprocessed before their reuse) may not increase the likelihood of endoscope contamination. Scope contamination may, in fact, be related primarily to either inadequate disinfection processes or inadvertent contamination during storage, not to duration of storage. The purpose of this study evaluated the presence of bacteria and fungus following liquid chemical sterilization in colonoscopes and gastroscopes, after 12 weeks of shelf life during which time personal protective equipment was used during endoscope storage cabinet access. We stored four colonoscopes and two gastroscopes in a cabinet for 12 weeks after liquid chemical sterilization and the cabinet was only accessed during the 12-week period wearing personal protective equipment (gown and gloves). Scopes were tested for bacteria and fungus at the end of 12 weeks. No bacteria or fungus grew on any of the scopes. This study provides further support that contaminated endoscopes may be related to either inadequate disinfection or contamination during storage, not shelf life.

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The Center for the Study of Social Work Practice is a joint endeavor of a major school of social work and a major social agency. Structured around an administrative core and three major research streams, it offers one possible model for establishing the linkages between research and practice so essential to meaningful research on social work practice. This article describes the concept and origin of the center, advantages and limitations of its structure and funding arrangements, and its current programs of research and research dissemination. Despite inevitable difficulties, experience thus far suggests that it is both possible and productive to institutionalize practice-research partnerships on a structural, organizational basis, as well as between social work researchers and practitioners on an individual basis. Organized around a central theme, the development of practice knowledge, the center may thereby contribute to the development of indigenous social work theory as well.