抄録
The relative volume of local treatments in the daily practice of the otorhinolaryngologic specialists, compared to other medical specialities, is tremendously heavy.
The aim of this survey is to analyse the importance of the local treatments with regard to their original characteristics from various points of view. Questionnaires were sent to the members of the Kanagawa region of the Otorhinolaryngological Society of Japan to survey what frequency and what type of treatments among 103 different types of local treatments they had performed in their daily practice in a week between January 13th and 19th, 1980 as well as in the last 3 months, and to elicit their answers as to what types of local treatments they considered as the highly specialized ones. The results were as follows:
Twenty-nine types of the local treatments were performed more than once in that week, and 45 were performed rarely but always when patients necessitated these treatments.
Sixty-one types were recognized as the highly specialized ones in 70% of the answerers, but 16 were thought as unspecialized in the majority of the answerers.
