title: [Changes of medical in-patients from 1960 to 1977 (author's transl)].
abstract: In comparison to 1960 double the number of patients were treated as in-patients in 1977 whereas the duration of stay was reduced by a third. Despite the more advanced age of patients the number of deaths diminished. Many of the present-day in-patients are older than previously. Cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac infarction, arterial vascular disease, diabetes, cancer and alcoholism have increased 2- to 6-fold.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000453:epidemiology; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000453:epidemiology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Veränderungen bei internistischen Krankenhauspatienten 1960 und 1977.