ABSTRACT
In August 1995, a committee was inaugurated in our hospital to improve hospital-patient relationship. Under the auspices of the committee, a series of lecture meetings were held with professional consultants and teachers invited. From September to December in that year, the on-the-job training was started and all the staff and part-time workers participated. The second training was carried out exclusively for people in managerial positions and the committee members from January to February in 1996. From March to June the third training was done for all the staff. The fourth and final training was given to the committee members from July to August in 1996. These on-the-job training and meetings resulted in marked improvements in communication between patients and hospital members. Moreover, the reform image of our hospital has been known widely. From now, we should continue our efforts to improve the hospital-patient relationship through various projects.
ABSTRACT
To determine the relationships among silent brain infarction (SBI), bone mineral density and milk consumption in elderly women, we studied 26 senile female outpatients with SBI in comparison with 18 age-matched controls.<BR>There was a significant difference between the two groups in diastolic blood pressure (p<0.05), and a significantly larger number of individuals in the SBI group had a history of hypertension than in the control group (p<0.005). Bone mineral density at the ultradistal end of the radius tended to be lower in the SBI group than in the control group (0.05<p<0.1). Milk consumption was greater in the control group than in the SBI group (p<0.01), but milk consumption tended to correlate with a history of hypertension rather than with bone mineral density (0.05<p<0.1).<BR>These finding indicated a close correlation between SBI and milk consumption habits in elderly women.