Evaluation of usefulness of serial AMHTS--from the viewpoint of inpatients in our hospital.
We studied the relation between admission after check-up and check-up frequencies of AMHTS examinees in our hospital in order to evaluate the usefulness of serial check-ups. Follow-up studies were performed on a total of 16,630 examinees and continued until March 1982. There were 558 inpatients, 3.4% of the total. The main reason for their admission was cancer, followed by diabetes mellitus and chronic hepatitis. It was shown that the admission rates of examinees decreased as the check-up frequencies increased the examinees under 60 years old, but not for those over 60 years of age. In addition, both admission and cancer rates of AMHTS examinees decreased on the whole as their check-up frequencies increased.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology; D003954:Diagnostic Services / Q000592:standards*; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D013997:Time Factors