衛生統計の資料としての入院患者の病歴誌 : 小児科の場合

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The present study was undertaken to explore the possibility of using the records of clinical histories of in-patients as a source of health statistics.Analysing the records of clinical histories of 1, 977 pediatric in-patients who were discharged from three large hospitals in Kyoto, Japan in 1959 and 1960, the following results were obtained.1) In-patients are seemed to be a fairly unbiased representative of the population of serious cases. So, classification of illness, condition on discharge, duration of stay in hospital, age and sex observed on in-patients will provide the useful estimate about that on the population of serious cases.2) The feature of in-patients in each hospital is some what variable from hospital to hospital. So, in order to get the unbiased information on in-patients in some district, investigations on two or more hospitals in the district will be necessary.3) The clinical histories of pediatric in-patients seem to contain many items which are very useful as a source of health statistics. Especially, past history of measles and whooping cough, family history of tuberculosis and neoplasms, records on vaccination, and other records on state of birth, on infant feeding, on family size will certainly make valuable data for health statistics.
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