Abstract
Recentry, prolonging of the life-span and complicating of the social organization, have given us more opportunities to treat patients with some complications or systemic diseases. Therefore, in our hospital there is the system that the patient to be treated on admission in cooperation with other fields is called to a “co-observed patient”. During past fourteen years from 1981 to 1995, 2932 patients totally admitted in our clinic, and the number of “co-observed patients” was 293 (10.0% of the admitted patients) ranging from 0 to 82 years old (means; 31.3 years). Classifying about“ co-observed fields”, 123 patients (42.0%) were co-observed with the pediatric field, following 65 (22.2%) with the internal medical, 31 (10.6%) with the neurosurgery, 28 (9.6%) with the emergency, 14 (4.8%) with the orthopedics, and 32 (10.8%) with the others. On the other hand, classifying about the disease in our field, 91 patients (33.3%) suffered from dental or periodontal diseases, following 77 (26.2%) from malignant tumour, 63 (23.1%) from facial injuries, 31 (10.6%) from inflamation, 11 (3.8%) from cyst and malformation respectively. From now on, the oppotunities of the “co-observation” with other medical fields tend to increase. Therfore, it is necessary to “co-observe” more closely.
