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W Giere

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PubMed1977

[Statistical contribution on symptomatic dry eye].

Optical mark page reader forms to establish the case history were statistically evaluated with regard to the question 'Do you often have the feeling of having sand in the eye. Out of a total of 5,833 patients, 684 (11.7%) answered this question with 'yes'. Women stated with 15.1% relatively more often than men with 9.7% this clinical symptom. Of these 684 patients who subjectively complained of feeling of sand, 241 had an ophthalmological examination. In 92 patients (38.2%) the Bengal-Rosa 1% test was specifically performed due to the specific past history and the clinical symptoms stated on questions by the physician; in all cases signs of a keratoconjunctivitis sicca of different degree were found by slit-lamp microscopy, i.e., at least 4.5% keratoconjunctivitis sicca patients on our whole collective can be expected. The result of a thorough examination in these 92 patients (39 men and 53 women) with ophthalmologically confirmed keratoconjunctivitis sicca showed that in 25 (of 53) women there was an imbalance of the sex hormones. Besides degenerative diseases due to age, diseases of the connective tissue and those caused by an auto immune mechansim were found.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

[Feeling of sand in the eyes and hormonal contraceptives (authors transl)].

By questionnaire forms the relation between the admission of taking antibaby pills and the subjective feeling of having sand in the eyes was checked. Out of 2201 patients from our group, aged between 9 and 84 years, 372 (16.9%) took hormonal contraceptives, 1812 (82.3%) denied the taking of contraceptives and 17 (0.8%) could not say. From the 372 patients who took hormonal contraceptives 37 (10%) complained of having the feeling of sand in the eyes, the other 335 (90%) denied having a feeling of sand in the eyes. The frequency of a subjective feeling of sand in the eyes was in the individual age groups independent of the subjective statement, of "take hormonal contraceptives" (chi2-test; P greater than 10%).

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

[The information system of the Deutsche Klinik für Diagnostik (author's transl)].

Data processing in medicine includes the administration, patient control and medical documentation. The introduction must be made step by step, lead to selective editing of information and promote the standardization process through the application of electronic data processing. Data acquisition can be done automatically by activating the computer or feeding from the information flow. Patient-linked information, including clear text, can be inverted, i. e. edited for retrieval by automatic description in a diagnosis orientated form.

Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted↗
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Building two medical databanks.

Two medical databanks are described: one for poison control centres, and one for gastroenterology. They include a diagnostic system built up since 1961 with logistic and statistical trial solutions, barring symptoms and the addition of not-found symptoms in the first data processing of the files. Up to 40 questions are answered by the databank concerning poisons. Around 60,000 items of information are stored. The databank for gastroenterology took 50 man-years for its development. 1381 diagnoses and 35,750 symptoms are now stored, with 445 test cases. Answers for 22 questions are provided. The correct diagnosis is found in 84% and 87% respectively in the first line of the printout; nearly 90% seems possible.

Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted↗