The Japanese Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (JAOMFS) declared the promotion of anti-smoking on October 23, 2003. We carried out two kinds of questionnaire surveys: one examined the ...attitudes of training hospitals towards smokers in August 2007, and the other assessed the smoking habits of JAOMFS members in October 2006. Results: 1. In the first survey, 73.5%(180/245) of the training hospitals responded. 92.2%(166/180) of the hospitals had already set up full no-smoking areas only inside of the hospital buildings. General hospitals with Departments of Dentistry and Oral Surgery had the highest rate of prohibition (94.4%). Most of the training hospitals of JAOMFS had tried to prohibit smoking inside of the hospital buildings since 2003. 52.2%(94/180) of respondents designated full no-smoking areas in all medical sites and buildings. Hospitals with both medical and dental faculties with Departments of Dentistry and Oral Surgery had the highest prohibition rate (64.7%). Dental hospitals had the lowest prohibition rate (17.4%). The attitude toward smoking prohibition in medical sites and buildings had gradually intensified since 2003 at several training hospitals. 2. The second survey had a response rate of 4.9% of all members (8547). Smokers accounted for 10.5%(44/419) of the respondents. The male-female ratio of all respondents was 9 to 1. The rate of smoking among males was 11.0%(41/374), and that among females was 7.5%(3/40). The highest rate of smoking was among members less than 6 years after joining the JAOMFS (22.2%) and among members in their thirties (18.1%). The smoking rate was highest among members who worked at dental hospitals (19.0%). The rate of awareness of our anti-smoking policy was 82.9% among the respondent members. 99.0% of the members were aware of the relation between smoking and diseases of the oral mucosa.
In Shinshu University Hospital, prescription ordering system by physicians for outpatients and inpatients has been introduced since April 1st, 1991.This system has been linked to printing system of ...prescriptions and drug envelopes since July, 1991.This system can be used all day. Prescription and designed informations were automatically printed out on the prescription paper and drug envelope paper according to physician's prescribing data, respectively. These papers were sealed by heat and were cut from the continuous rolling paper, and then were transported into printing machines by order of prescriptions. Printing colors of drug envelope are as follows: 1) letters of internal medicine is cyanine color, 2) letters of draft medicine is green color, 3) letters of external medicine is magenta color, 4) letter of patient's name is dark blue color.In this time, our developed system was very useful for making drug envelopes and labor-saving at preparation of medicine.
In Shinshu University Hospital, prescription ordering system by physicians for outpatients and inpatients has been introduced at the same time since April 1st, 1991. We adopted distribution system by ...personal computer FMR 50 with LAN using optical data highway as the host machine, FACOM M770/8.Using this system, physicians can prescribe medicines for intrahospital, extra-hospital and narcotic prescriptions. Extra-hospital and narcotic prescriptions are printed out at the medical office, while informations for intra-hospital prescriptions are directly transmitted to the hospital pharmacy, and prescriptions and drug envelopes are formed using by the printing machines. Drug information system is constructed using MEDIS-DC tape.Drug information retrieval on this system is classified in four parts; 1) usage and dosage, 2) contraindications, 3) effect and efficacy, and 4) adverse reactions.Physicians can make the prescriptions through the all time in a day except 9-10 p.m.from Monday to Thursday and 9-10: 30 p.m. at Friday. This system has the advantage of reducing both prescription making time and patient waiting time.
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