• 정신신체의학
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.81-91
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• 1993

The consulting internist will encounter patients with psychiatric symptoms and those who take psychotropic medications in many settings. The internist must loam to feel comfortable interacting with patients who display psychiatric symptoms. while maintaining an open and unprejudiced attitude toward their evaluation. The proper delineation of psychiatric disorders from normal emotional reactions resets on a careful history, a mental status evaluation. and a knowledge of psychiatric syndromes. Many physicians tend erroneously to view behavioral changes only in a psychological framework Abrupt changes in behavior, personality, mood. or ability to function should be evaluated for possible organic causes. Then, the internists should take their consultation to psychiatrists and freely discuss psychologic problems of the patients.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권15호
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• pp.6705-6709
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• 2015

Background: Venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) constitute a group of diseases including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). They regarded as the second leading cause of death in cancer patients and several studies have confirmed that VTEs have a negative impact on survival and recurrent rate in both ovarian and endometrial cancer cases. The incidence of VTEs differs worldwide and depends on several risk factors including race, underlying disease, lifestyle, body weight, BMI and genetic risk factors. There is heterogeneity of DVT rates between Asian and Western countries. This study was conducted in order to evaluate the character and incidence of VTEs in gynecologic oncology patients in King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital over a 10 year period. Materials and Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed with VTEs defined as objective diagnosis of acute DVT or PE with typical symptoms and signs. Diagnoses were approved byan internist and/or confirmed with imaging studies. Data from both outpatient and inpatient sessions of the affected cases from January 2004 to December 2013 were extracted. General characteristics of the patients were collected with details of the diseases, types of cancer, stage, date of diagnosis of cancer, operative data, treatment outcome, progression free survival and overall survival. Results: Thirty cases of VTEs were identified in a total 2,316 gynecologic oncology cases. The incidence of symptomatic VTEs in total gynecologic oncology patients in our institution is 1.295%. The incidence of VTEs in ovarian cancer patients in our institution was 5.9%. Duration for VTE detection ranged from 13 months before diagnosis of cancer to 33 months after diagnosis of cancer. Most of the VTE cases were detected in ovarian cancer patients (60%). The most common cell type was adenocarcinoma (moderately to poorly differentiated) which accounted for 26.7% of the cases. The second most common cell type was clear cell carcinoma with 23.3% of the cases. Thirty percent of VTE cases developed before cancer was diagnosed, 20% were diagnosed at the same time as cancer detection and fifty percent developed after cancer was diagnosed. Median disease free survival of the gynecologic oncology patients with VTE was 7.5 months. Median overall survival (OS) was 12 months. Median progession free survivals of DVT and PE groups were 11.5 and 5.5 months, respectively. OS of DVT and PE was 12.0 and 11.5 months respectively. Conclusions: The incidence of VTE in Asian countries is believed to be lower than in European or Western countries. From our retrospective review, the incidence of VTEs in all types of gynecologic oncology was 1.295%, much lower than reported in the West. The reason for the lower incidence may genetic differences. Another factor is that VTE in this review was symptomatic, which is less than asymptomatic VTE. More than half of VTEs in this study developed in ovarian cancer patients. The results are compatible with earlier reports that among gynecologic malignancies, the incidence of VTE is highest in ovarian cancer.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.147-211
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• 1995

Medication is a kind of medical service and a therapeutic nursing function which takes large portion of nursing service and requires complicated procedures. So many different medical personnel should be involved and cooporate each other in order to accomplish medication. Medication is also a vital nursing service, So nurse feels heavy responsibi lity in that she gives medication to the patient finally, so she has much responsibility if medication error is happened. Therefore it seems very important to clarify the problem of medication system and method, and find the subculture of medication situation because it may promote nursing productivity. The study was conducted to 1. Describe and interpret medication situation. 2. Find out the problem of medication system and method and on alternatives. 3. Compare the medication system and method of hospitals which are located in Seoul with object hospital Ethnographic methodology was used to study medication situation by doing participant observation and interview of health care personnel. Ten nurses and three nurse aids were interviewed. Two residents and internists, two phamacists and two accountants were also interviewed. Data was obtained and analized according to Developmental Research Sequence introduced by Spradly. On the basis of this data the results were as follows. 1. The overall flow of medication system was devided into six stage : first, checking doctor's order : second writing doctor's order, : third, transfering slip into the related departments such as account department, pharmacy : fourth, distribution of medication from pharmacy to unit : fifth, identifing medication by nurses : and finally, medicating to the patient. Behaviorors have been under a lot of stress in that they have to do much works, especially paperworks, So too much time were needed. They also have been suffered interpersonal conflicts among health care personnel and role conflicts in the process of doing medication service. 2. In the process of checking order, the problem was that too much time was required for checking order and paperwork. The more the order changes the more the paperwork is. Nurses have been suffering difficulties in calling internist in order to get bill. Even if writing down slip for medication order is doctor's job, Sometimes nurse has been expected to write slip by doctors or nurse would write slip beacuse of two much complexities and efforts for calling doctors. If the slip were incorrect, much time complicated procedures were more required for correcting it. So delay of administering drug would be resulted consequently. Drugs were delivered from pharmacy to units by delivery agent and phamacist. But because drugs were delivered without arranging room number of patient. Nurse should rearrange drugs in order of the room number So it had made waste time and effort, and Even when emergency drugs were needed, Prompt delivery of drug was not easy because of many reasons. For nurses, it took too long in the identification of the right drug. Actually nurses have heavy burden when medication error happens because nurse is the final actor who gives medication to the patient, So every three shift nurse ought to check drugs as soon as every shift begins. That's why it took too much time due to repeated confirming procedure. When nurses had to go patient room in order to give medications, there were difficulties in watching patient until the patient take medicine correctly. So it was impossible to check every patient wheather he took medicine or not especially in hectic situation. 3. There were many hospitals in Seoul which have similar medication system and method as object hospital according to the results of questionaire. This means that many hospitals have been suffering srimilar problems which were identified in object hospital. 4. Recommendations for promoting simplification of medication system and method were the following : Redesigning of slip from two pieces of paper into one : early discharge announcement system, and slip confirming through computer and controlling of period of prescreption from one day to two or three days : designing personal drug storage box for each patient and using it. If nurses follow the recommendations, they will make medication short & simple, and also have enough time of direct nursing care 5. Even though there were many difficulties in medicating patients. Medication itself has been considered as a caring among nurses because it makes rapport between nurse and patient. So nurses had better accept medication as a portion of nusing service not a original portion of phamacist. There are some limits in this research in terms of confining to only one unit of one hospital, and treating it especially in view of nurses' aspects, So further researchs should be continnued from various kmds of viewpoints of doctors, phamacists and so on. ${\cdot\cdot\cdot}$. Especially esthnographic study of computerized medication system and method seems to be followed.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.133-143
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• 1996

본 연구는 경상북도 경주시 보건소에서 1995년 6월 10일부터 10월 17일까지, 성주군 보건소에서 8월 1일부터 9월 20일까지, 고령군 보건소에서 8월 5일부터 10월 17일까지 진료를 받은 환자 중에서 타 의료기관으로 의뢰된 환자 249명을 대상으로 설문조사를 통하여 보건소 이용자들의 타 의료기관으로의 진료의뢰 양상, 진료의뢰서 발급경위 및 보건소내 전문과목의 요구도를 파악하고자 실시되었다 환자 본인의 희망에 의해 진료의뢰서를 발급받은 경우와 의사의 판단에 의해 진료의뢰서를 발급받은 경우 모두를 포함하였으며 본인이 설문 조사에 응한 경우만을 분석대상으로 하였다. 자료수집 기간 중 3개 보건소의 전체적인 진료의뢰율은 보건소 이용자 13,652명 중 371명으로 2.7%였으며, 설문조사에 응한 249명 중 환자 본인의 희망에 의해 진료의뢰서를 발급받은 사람이 214명(85.9%)이었고, 의사의 판단에 의해 진료의뢰서를 발급받은 사람은 35명(14.1%)이었다. 환자 본인의 희망에 의해 진료의뢰서를 발급받은 사람 중에는 타 의료기관을 거치지 않고 바로 보건소를 방문한 사람이 98명 (45.9%)으로 가장 많았고, 개인의원을 들렀다가 보건소를 방문한 사람은 74명(34.6%), 평상시 진료는 개인의원에서 받고 있지만 진료의뢰서를 발급받기 위해 보건소를 방문한 사람이 42명(19.5%)인 것으로 나타났다. 대상자들이 보건소에 진료의뢰서를 발급받으러 온 이유로는 '보건소가 거리가 가까워서'가 74명(34.6%)으로 가장 많았고, '보건소에서는 진료의뢰서 발급을 잘 해주기 때문에'가 58명(27.1%), '개인의원에서 진료의뢰서를 발급해주지 않으려 해서'가 35명(16.4%) 그리고 '개인의원에서 진료를 받던 의사에게 진료의뢰서를 발급받기가 미안해서'가 30명(14.0%) 등의 순이었다. 진료의뢰된 환자들의 한국표준질병분류에 의한 질병별 분포는 진료의뢰된 환자 전체적으로는 근골격계 및 결합조직 질환이 43명(17.3%)으로 가장 많았고, 환자 본인이 진료의뢰서 발급을 원한 경우는 신경계 및 감각기 질환이 11.7%,의사가 판단하여 진료의뢰서를 발급한 경우에는 감염성 및 기생충성 질환이 11.4%로 전체 질병별 분포에 비해 상대적으로 높은 비율을 차지하였다. 진료의뢰 환자들의 진료의뢰서 발급 후 진료희망 의료기관은 환자 본인이 희망한 경우와 의사의 판단에 의해 진료의뢰한 경우 모두에서 종합병원 이상의 의료기관을 선호하였다. 보건소내 전문의 진료의 필요성에 대해서는 환자 본인의 희망에 의해 진료의뢰서를 발급받은 경우와 의사의 판단에 의해 진료의뢰서를 발급받은 경우에서 각각 161명(75.2%)과 26명(74.3%)이 전문의의 진료가 필요하다고 응답하였다. 전문의의 진료가 필요하다고 응답한 경우 필요한 전문과목의 종류는 내과 88명 (47.1%), 정형외과 19명(10.2%), 일반외과 병(9.1%) 순이었고, 보건소내 전문의의 진료 횟수는 상주 전문의를 원한 경우가 108명(57.8%)으로 가장 많았고, 1주일에 $2\sim3$회가 32명(17.1%), 1주일에 1회가 21명(11.2%), 1달에 1회가 17명(9.1%)순이었다. 이상의 결과로 보건소에서 진료의뢰서를 발급받은 사람의 대부분은 환자 본인이 원하여 진료의뢰서를 발급받고 있어 환자의뢰제도의 개선이 요망되며, 보건소에서 전문의 진료가 실시된다면 내과진료가 우선적으로 시행되고, 정형외과와 일반외과 등의 진료 요구가 높은 전문과목은 민간의료기관의 협조를 통하여 비상근 형태의 진료가 시행되는 것이 좋을 것으로 생각된다.