장 질환은 점막 세포의 파괴로부터 진행되어 장 상피세포벽의 기능상실, 비정상적인 장벽 활동을 야기하며, 이는 또 다시 염증반응의 가속화를 야기하는데[1], 여러 연구에도 불구하고 염증성 장질환에 대한 병변은 뚜렷이 밝혀진 바가 없다. 지난 수년간 병리학적 기전에 근거한 염증성 장질환에 대해 여러 연구가 이루어져 왔으며, 현재 만성적인 염증성 장 질환의 경우 여러 종류의 혈중 사이토카인 증가로 인한 과도한 세포 면역반응과 관련이 있을 것으로 추정되고 있다. 이러한 이유로 비정상적인 면역반응을 유도하는 전염증성 사이토카인인 TNF-
연구배경: 폐암환자에 있어서 병기판정은 적절한 치료방침과 환자의 예후를 예측하기 위해 필요하다. 소세포폐암은 진단시 광범위한 종격동침범이 있거나 전신적으로 전이된 경우가 많아 VALG이 제시한 two staging system이 주로 사용되어져왔다. 그러나 이러한 병기분류법은 환자의 예후 변별력에 한계가 있을 뿐 아니라 최근에는 완치 가능성이 높은 환자들을 대상으로 근치적절제술과 항암화학요법의 병용치료와 같은 보다 적극적인 치료들이 시도됨에 따라 균일하고 세분화된 병기분류의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 저자들은 소세포폐암을 비소세포폐암과 같이 I, II, IIIa, IIIb 및 IV로 세분화되어 예후를 비교함으로써 소세포폐암의 경우에도 TNM 병기가 예후인자로서의 가치가 있는 지를 조사하였다. 대상 및 방법: 1989년 1월부터 1996년 12월까지 경북대학교 병원에서 소세포폐암으로 진단된 환자 166명 가운데 TNM 병기분류가 가능하였던 147명을 대상으로 하였으며, TNM 병기는 1997년에 새로이 개정된 International staging system에 의거하여 분류하였다. 환자의 생존여부는 환자기록부와 전화 및 우편조회로 조사하였으며 생존기간은 Kaplan-Meier method를 이용하여 산출하였고 생존기간의 차이는 log-rank test를 이용하여 비교하였다. 결 과: 전체대상환자 147예의 TNM 병기에 따른 중앙생존기간은 I/II기 18.5개월, IIIa기 11.3개월, IIIb가 9.4개월, 그리고 IV기가 5.4개월이었으며, 1년 및 2년 생존율은 I/II기의 경우 75% 와 37.5%, IIIa기는 46.7% 와 25.0%, IIIb기는 34.3% 와 11.3%, 그리고 IV기는 2.6%와 0%로 병기에 따라 유의한 차이가 있었다 (p<0.001). 2회 이상의 항암화학요법을 받은 84예의 TNM 병기에 따른 중앙생존기간은 I/II기 18.5개월, IIIa기 16.0개월, IIIb기 12.2개월, 그리고 병기 IV기 7.4개월이었으며, 1년 및 2년 생존율은 I/II기는 75%와 37.5%, IIIa기는 58.3%와 31.3%, IIIb기는 51.7%와 13.53%, 그리고 IV기는 3.8%와 0%로 병기에 따라 유의한 차이가 있었다(p<0.001). 병기에 따른 중앙생존기간과 생존율은 I-IIIb기는 IV 기와 유의한 차이가 있었고, 병기 I/II는 IIIa기와는 유의한 차이는 없었으나 IIIb기와는 유의한 차이가 있었으며, 병기 IIIa는 IIIb기에 비해 중앙생존기간 및 2년 생존율이 높았으나 통계학적으로 유의한 차이는 없었다. I-IIIb에서 T 병기와 N병기에 따른 예후는 전체환자와 2회 이상 항암화학요법을 받은 환자모두에서 T1-2와 T3와 T4에 비해 양호하였으며 T3와 T4는 차이가 없었고, N2는 N3에 비해 중앙 생존기간과 2년 생존율이 높았으나 통계학적 유의성은 없었다. 결 론: 이상의 결과로 소세포폐암의 경우에도 TNM 병가분류가 예후를 예측할 수 있는 인자로 생각되며, 제한기의 환자들만을 대상으로 하는 전향적인 연구는 환자들을 TNM 병기를 고려하여 환자들을 보다 세분화하는 것이 좋을 것 같다. 그러나 TNM 병기분류가 임상에서 적용되기 위해서는 보다 많은 환자들을 대상으로 한 연구가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.
최근 독감 예측이나 부동산가격 예측 등 다양한 분야에서 웹검색 트래픽이나 소셜 네트워크 등의 방대한 고객 데이터를 통해 사회 현상, 소비 트렌드 등을 분석하고자 하는 시도가 증가하고 있다. 최근 구글이나 네이버 등의 인터넷 포털서비스 업체들은 온라인 사용자들의 웹검색 트래픽 정보를 구글 트렌드, 네이버 트렌드 등의 서비스로 공개하고 있는데, 이들이 제공하는 웹검색 트래픽 정보를 기반으로 온라인 사용자들의 정보 검색 행태에 대한 연구들이 학계 업계 등에서 주목받고 있다. 웹검색 정보를 기반으로 사회 현상이나, 소비 동향, 정치 투표 결과 등을 예측해 볼 수 있음을 실증하고 있는 분야는 많은 연구가 수행되고 있지만, 웹검색 트래픽 정보를 이용하여, 소비자의 제품에 대한 중요한 속성 도출 및 소비자의 기대 변화 관측 등의 온라인 사용자 행태에 초점을 맞추어 연구되고 있는 분야는 상대적으로 많은 연구가 수행되고 있지는 않다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 구글이나 네이버가 제공하는 소비자의 웹검색 트래픽을 활용해서 소비자가 생각하는 제품 포지션을 가시화할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 브랜드 간의 관계를 확인하기 위해, 동시 검색 트래픽 정보를 활용하여 네트워크 모델링의 방법을 사용한 시스템을 제안하고 있으며, 이를 통해 소비자들이 제품 간의 유사성을 어떻게 인지하고 형성하며, 새로운 혁신 제품 카테고리 내에서 제품 브랜드들이 소비자의 마음 속에서 어떻게 자리 잡고 있는지의 브랜드 포지셔닝을 확인할 수 있는 방법론을 제안하였다. 또한 이를 태블릿 PC의 사례를 통해서, 미시적인 관점에서 소비자의 마음속에 위치한 태블릿 PC 개별 브랜드들의 위치 및 관계를 보여주었다. 기업은 소비자의 제품에 대한 인식 및 중요 속성 도출을 위해 많은 비용과 시간을 소요하여 소비자 조사를 행하게 되는데, 본 연구의 방법론을 활용하여 소비자의 제품에 대한 인식, 제품간 유사도, 제품에 대한 중요 속성의 변화 등을 일반에게 공개된 검색 트래픽 정보를 활용하여 비교적 쉽고 추가적인 비용 없이 도출할 수 있을 것이다.
Much has teed changed in the field of hospital administration in the It wake of the rapid development of sciences, techniques ana systematic hospital management. However, we still have a long way to go in organization, in the quality of hospital employees and hospital equipment and facilities, and in financial support in order to achieve proper hospital management. The above factors greatly effect the ability of hospitals to fulfill their obligation in patient care and nursing services. The purpose of this study is to determine the optimal methods of standardization and quality nursing so as to improve present nursing services through investigations and analyses of various problems concerning nursing administration. This study has been undertaken during the six month period from October 1971 to March 1972. The 41 comprehensive hospitals have been selected iron amongst the 139 in the whole country. These have been categorized according-to the specific purposes of their establishment, such as 7 university hospitals, 18 national or public hospitals, 12 religious hospitals and 4 enterprise ones. The following conclusions have been acquired thus far from information obtained through interviews with nursing directors who are in charge of the nursing administration in each hospital, and further investigations concerning the purposes of establishment, the organization, personnel arrangements, working conditions, practices of service, and budgets of the nursing service department. 1. The nursing administration along with its activities in this country has been uncritical1y adopted from that of the developed countries. It is necessary for us to re-establish a new medical and nursing system which is adequate for our social environments through continuous study and research. 2. The survey shows that the 7 university hospitals were chiefly concerned with education, medical care and research; the 18 national or public hospitals with medical care, public health and charity work; the 2 religious hospitals with medical care, charity and missionary works; and the 4 enterprise hospitals with public health, medical care and charity works. In general, the main purposes of the hospitals were those of charity organizations in the pursuit of medical care, education and public benefits. 3. The survey shows that in general hospital facilities rate 64 per cent and medical care 60 per-cent against a 100 per cent optimum basis in accordance with the medical treatment law and approved criteria for training hospitals. In these respects, university hospitals have achieved the highest standards, followed by religious ones, enterprise ones, and national or public ones in that order. 4. The ages of nursing directors range from 30 to 50. The level of education achieved by most of the directors is that of graduation from a nursing technical high school and a three year nursing junior college; a very few have graduated from college or have taken graduate courses. 5. As for the career tenure of nurses in the hospitals: one-third of the nurses, or 38 per cent, have worked less than one year; those in the category of one year to two represent 24 pet cent. This means that a total of 62 per cent of the career nurses have been practicing their profession for less than two years. Career nurses with over 5 years experience number only 16 per cent: therefore the efficiency of nursing services has been rated very low. 6. As for the standard of education of the nurses: 62 per cent of them have taken a three year course of nursing in junior colleges, and 22 per cent in nursing technical high schools. College graduate nurses come up to only 15 per cent; and those with graduate course only 0.4 per cent. This indicates that most of the nurses are front nursing technical high schools and three year nursing junior colleges. Accordingly, it is advisable that nursing services be divided according to their functions, such as professional, technical nurses and nurse's aides. 7. The survey also shows that the purpose of nursing service administration in the hospitals has been regulated in writing in 74 per cent of the hospitals and not regulated in writing in 26 per cent of the hospitals. The general purposes of nursing are as follows: patient care, assistance in medical care and education. The main purpose of these nursing services is to establish proper operational and personnel management which focus on in-service education. 8. The nursing service departments belong to the medical departments in almost 60 per cent of the hospitals. Even though the nursing service department is formally separated, about 24 per cent of the hospitals regard it as a functional unit in the medical department. Only 5 per cent of the hospitals keep the department as a separate one. To the contrary, approximately 12 per cent of the hospitals have not established a nursing service department at all but surbodinate it to the other department. In this respect, it is required that a new hospital organization be made to acknowledge the independent function of the nursing department. In 76 per cent of the hospitals they have advisory committees under the nursing department, such as a dormitory self·regulating committee, an in-service education committee and a nursing procedure and policy committee. 9. Personnel arrangement and working conditions of nurses 1) The ratio of nurses to patients is as follows: In university hospitals, 1 to 2.9 for hospitalized patients and 1 to 4.0 for out-patients; in religious hospitals, 1 to 2.3 for hospitalized patients and 1 to 5.4 for out-patients. Grouped together this indicates that one nurse covers 2.2 hospitalized patients and 4.3 out-patients on a daily basis. The current medical treatment law stipulates that one nurse should care for 2.5 hospitalized patients or 30.0 out-patients. Therefore the statistics indicate that nursing services are being peformed with an insufficient number of nurses to cover out-patients. The current law concerns the minimum number of nurses and disregards the required number of nurses for operation rooms, recovery rooms, delivery rooms, new-born baby rooms, central supply rooms and emergency rooms. Accordingly, tile medical treatment law has been requested to be amended. 2) The ratio of doctors to nurses: In university hospitals, the ratio is 1 to 1.1; in national of public hospitals, 1 to 0.8; in religious hospitals 1 to 0.5; and in private hospitals 1 to 0.7. The average ratio is 1 to 0.8; generally the ideal ratio is 3 to 1. Since the number of doctors working in hospitals has been recently increasing, the nursing services have consequently teen overloaded, sacrificing the services to the patients. 3) The ratio of nurses to clerical staff is 1 to 0.4. However, the ideal ratio is 5 to 1, that is, 1 to 0.2. This means that clerical personnel far outnumber the nursing staff. 4) The ratio of nurses to nurse's-aides; The average 2.5 to 1 indicates that most of the nursing service are delegated to nurse's-aides owing to the shortage of registered nurses. This is the main cause of the deterioration in the quality of nursing services. It is a real problem in the guest for better nursing services that certain hospitals employ a disproportionate number of nurse's-aides in order to meet financial requirements. 5) As for the working conditions, most of hospitals employ a three-shift day with 8 hours of duty each. However, certain hospitals still use two shifts a day. 6) As for the working environment, most of the hospitals lack welfare and hygienic facilities. 7) The salary basis is the highest in the private university hospitals, with enterprise hospitals next and religious hospitals and national or public ones lowest. 8) Method of employment is made through paper screening, and further that the appointment of nurses is conditional upon the favorable opinion of the nursing directors. 9) The unemployment ratio for one year in 1971 averaged 29 per cent. The reasons for unemployment indicate that the highest is because of marriage up to 40 per cent, and next is because of overseas employment. This high unemployment ratio further causes the deterioration of efficiency in nursing services and supplementary activities. The hospital authorities concerned should take this matter into a jeep consideration in order to reduce unemployment. 10) The importance of in-service education is well recognized and established. 1% has been noted that on the-job nurses. training has been most active, with nursing directors taking charge of the orientation programs of newly employed nurses. However, it is most necessary that a comprehensive study be made of instructors, contents and methods of education with a separate section for in-service education. 10. Nursing services'activities 1) Division of services and job descriptions are urgently required. 81 per rent of the hospitals keep written regulations of services in accordance with nursing service manuals. 19 per cent of the hospitals do not keep written regulations. Most of hospitals delegate to the nursing directors or certain supervisors the power of stipulating service regulations. In 21 per cent of the total hospitals they have policy committees, standardization committees and advisory committees to proceed with the stipulation of regulations. 2) Approximately 81 per cent of the hospitals have service channels in which directors, supervisors, head nurses and staff nurses perform their appropriate services according to the service plans and make up the service reports. In approximately 19 per cent of the hospitals the staff perform their nursing services without utilizing the above channels. 3) In the performance of nursing services, a ward manual is considered the most important one to be utilized in about 32 percent of hospitals. 25 per cent of hospitals indicate they use a kardex; 17 per cent use ward-rounding, and others take advantage of work sheets or coordination with other departments through conferences. 4) In about 78 per cent of hospitals they have records which indicate the status of personnel, and in 22 per cent they have not. 5) It has been advised that morale among nurses may be increased, ensuring more efficient services, by their being able to exchange opinions and views with each other. 6) The satisfactory performance of nursing services rely on the following factors to the degree indicated: approximately 32 per cent to the systematic nursing activities and services; 27 per cent to the head nurses ability for nursing diagnosis; 22 per cent to an effective supervisory system; 16 per cent to the hospital facilities and proper supply, and 3 per cent to effective in·service education. This means that nurses, supervisors, head nurses and directors play the most important roles in the performance of nursing services. 11. About 87 per cent of the hospitals do not have separate budgets for their nursing departments, and only 13 per cent of the hospitals have separate budgets. It is recommended that the planning and execution of the nursing administration be delegated to the pertinent administrators in order to bring about improved proved performances and activities in nursing services.
This project was a service-cum-research effort with a quasi-experimental study design to examine the health benefits of an integrated Family Planning (FP)/Maternal & Child health (MCH) Service approach that provides crucial factors missing in the present on-going programs. The specific objectives were: 1) To test the effectiveness of trained nurse/midwives (MW) assigned as change agents in the Health Sub-Center (HSC) to bring about the changes in the eight FP/MCH indicators, namely; (i)FP/MCH contacts between field workers and their clients (ii) the use of effective FP methods, (iii) the inter-birth interval and/or open interval, (iv) prenatal care by medically qualified personnel, (v) medically supervised deliveries, (vi) the rate of induced abortion, (vii) maternal and infant morbidity, and (viii) preinatal & infant mortality. 2) To measure the integrative linkage (contacts) between MW & HSC workers and between HSC and clients. 3) To examine the organizational or administrative factors influencing integrative linkage between health workers. Study design; The above objectives called for quasi-experimental design setting up a study and control area with and without a midwife. An active intervention program (FP/MCH minimum 'package' program) was conducted for a 2 year period from June 1982-July 1984 in Seosan County and 'before and after' surveys were conducted to measure the change. Service input; This study was undertaken by the Soonchunhyang University in collaboration with WHO. After a baseline survery in 1981, trained nurses/midwives were introduced into two health sub-centers in a rural setting (Seosan county) for a 2 year period from 1982 to 1984. A major service input was the establishment of midwifery services in the existing health delivery system with emphasis on nurse/midwife's role as the link between health workers (nurse aids) and village health workers, and the referral of risk patients to the private physician (OBGY specialist). An evaluation survey was made in August 1984 to assess the effectiveness of this alternative integrated approach in the study areas in comparison with the control area which had normal government services. Method of evaluation; a. In this study, the primary objective was first to examine to what extent the FP/MCH package program brought about changes in the pre-determined eight indicators (outcome and impact measures) and the following relationship was first analyzed; b. Nevertheless, this project did not automatically accept the assumption that if two or more activities were integrated, the results would automatically be better than a non-integrated or categorical program. There is a need to assess the 'integration process' itself within the package program. The process of integration was measured in terms of interactive linkages, or the quantity & quality of contacts between workers & clients and among workers. Intergrative linkages were hypothesized to be influenced by organizational factors at the HSC clinic level including HSC goals, sltrurture, authority, leadership style, resources, and personal characteristics of HSC staff. The extent or degree of integration, as measured by the intensity of integrative linkages, was in turn presumed to influence programme performance. Thus as indicated diagrammatically below, organizational factors constituted the independent variables, integration as the intervening variable and programme performance with respect to family planning and health services as the dependent variable: Concerning organizational factors, however, due to the limited number of HSCs (2 in the study area and 3 in the control area), they were studied by participatory observation of an anthropologist who was independent of the project. In this observation, we examined whether the assumed integration process actually occurred or not. If not, what were the constraints in producing an effective integration process. Summary of Findings; A) Program effects and impact 1. Effects on FP use: During this 2 year action period, FP acceptance increased from 58% in 1981 to 78% in 1984 in both the study and control areas. This increase in both areas was mainly due to the new family planning campaign driven by the Government for the same study period. Therefore, there was no increment of FP acceptance rate due to additional input of MW to the on-going FP program. But in the study area, quality aspects of FP were somewhat improved, having a better continuation rate of IUDs & pills and more use of effective Contraceptive methods in comparison with the control area. 2. Effects of use of MCH services: Between the study and control areas, however, there was a significant difference in maternal and child health care. For example, the coverage of prenatal care was increased from 53% for 1981 birth cohort to 75% for 1984 birth cohort in the study area. In the control area, the same increased from 41% (1981) to 65% (1984). It is noteworthy that almost two thirds of the recent birth cohort received prenatal care even in the control area, indicating that there is a growing demand of MCH care as the size of family norm becomes smaller 3. There has been a substantive increase in delivery care by medical professions in the study area, with an annual increase rate of 10% due to midwives input in the study areas. The project had about two times greater effect on postnatal care (68% vs. 33%) at delivery care(45.2% vs. 26.1%). 4. The study area had better reproductive efficiency (wanted pregancies with FP practice & healthy live births survived by one year old) than the control area, especially among women under 30 (14.1% vs. 9.6%). The proportion of women who preferred the 1st trimester for their first prenatal care rose significantly in the study area as compared to the control area (24% vs 13%). B) Effects on Interactive Linkage 1. This project made a contribution in making several useful steps in the direction of service integration, namely; i) The health workers have become familiar with procedures on how to work together with each other (especially with a midwife) in carrying out their work in FP/MCH and, ii) The health workers have gotten a feeling of the usefulness of family health records (statistical integration) in identifying targets in their own work and their usefulness in caring for family health. 2. On the other hand, because of a lack of required organizational factors, complete linkage was not obtained as the project intended. i) In regards to the government health worker's activities in terms of home visiting there was not much difference between the study & control areas though the MW did more home visiting than Government health workers. ii) In assessing the service performance of MW & health workers, the midwives balanced their workload between 40% FP, 40% MCH & 20% other activities (mainly immunization). However,