1. The author reviewed the results of a mass X-ray survey by 70㎜ Odelca
photofluorography conducted with an assistance of Ministry of Health on the subjects of
8,733 out patients of Pusan University Hospital for 9 months period from Junuary 1961
to September 1961.
2. The low rate of participation on this program seemed to be due to the lack of
understanding on the patient´s side as well as the inadequate information given by the
hospital. However, it was relatively higher among the patients of internal medicine with
a rate of 44% and the patients of pediatrics with a rate of 37%. The lowest one was
4% in dental patients, 8% to 9% in E.N.T. Eye, Urology and Dermatology patients.
Judging from these phenomenon the most influential factor on the rate of participation
would be the feeling of necessity by the patientselves. However, the rates of the
anormalous findings were well paralleled with the rates of participation and the
subjective feelings of the patients seemed to be also undeniable.
3. The discovery rate of pulmonary tuberculosis was 13.4% overall and it was 2 to 6
times higher than the rates found by the mass survey of general populations, schools
and others. From this fact it could be a very effective measure to include the hospital
patients as one of the important subjects for mass X-ray.
4. The calssifications of these pulmonary tuberculosis were 33.3% of minimal, 28% of
moderately advanced, 38.7% of far advanced. The sputum examinations have done only
by direct or concentration smear method except few cases of culture, from 400 patients
among 1,900 patients with a pathologic chest X-ray, revealed the positive results of
28.8% for Acid Fast Bacillie and 2.7% for Paragonimus ova.
5. The majority age group of the participations and the patients revealed pulmonary
tuberculosis was between 20 and 30 years old. However, the relative rates of discovery
of the tuberculosis showed a gradual increase toward the older age groups, The sexratio
was about 2 times higher in the male than the female.
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