Abstract
For the computerization of psychiatric chart, it was neccessay to convert the materials described in the chart to the codes to which the computer was accessible. In this paper codings of the items were reported except those of psychiatric symptoms which were reported previously. Several problems concerning the computerization by micro-computer were also discussed.
Items of administration data numbered 294, which needed 422 bytes and 2 sectors on the flexible mini-disk supporting micro-computer NEC 8001 with 32K RAM. Those for pychiatric symptoms were 369 items, 391 bytes and 2 sectors. For somatic symptoms including side effects of drugs, 127 items, 148 bytes and 1 sector. For examination data, 344 items, 603 bytes and 4 sectors.
Limitation of memory in micro-computer was most apparent in the registration of drugs administered. Daily dose were recorded only for the latest 1 month. For the previous 12 months averaged doses for month were recorded, and for additional previous 10 years averaged doses for year were recorded. Using theses strategy, numbers of the kinds of drugs were limited to 13, which were insufficient for the registration of drugs except anti-psychotica, so parkinsonian drugs, hypnotica and others had no share to be registered.
In spite of this limitation, this program worked well practically, for the analysis of patients under a new therapeutic program in relation to the shortening of administration period, as well as for the establishment of correlation between the clinical data and positron CT findings
