[Perimortal management--humanistic assignment and responsibility. Attempt at status determination].

The scientific research and practical use of all questions concerning life demands interdisciplinary cooperation. This is the result of neglection of death and dying and new social and medical developments as there are institutionalisation of dying and scientific-technical progress. The foundation of the working group "perimortal medicine" in 1983 in the Association for clinical medicine gives the possibility to discuss theoretical and practical questions concerning the end of life, death and dying.

[Thoughts on dying and death in literature].

About 35 novels, stories and poems from some 10 countries were evaluated by the author in order to show how differently the subject of dying and death is treated in such literary works. Special attention is given to both dying in a hospital and to helping people to face death.

[Incidence of hospital treatment in carcinoma in situ in the German Democratic Republic].

1. In the period 1969 to 1974 the average frequency of in-patient treatment of carcinoma in situ has more than doubled in the GDR according to the results of an analysis of the hospital case records. There is considerable variation between the different countries and districts.

[Hospitalized hypertensiol patients with gastrointestinal disease].

A careful codification according to the rules of electronic data processing of all data given and especially of the admission number on the signature margin of th medical record gives the possiblity of a rapid return of information for the practice and of a scientific evalustion. 404 patients with hypertension (400-404) of the distric Rostock who were treated in the clinic simultaneously suffered from gastrointestinal diseases (531-536, 570-577). For a more specialized analysis of the clinical data from case histories the four largest institutions of the district were chosen.