Computer literacy enhancement in the Teaching Hospital Olomouc. Part I: project management techniques. Short communication.

Information explosion and globalization make great demands on keeping pace with the new trends in the healthcare sector. The contemporary level of computer and information literacy among most health care professionals in the Teaching Hospital Olomouc (Czech Republic) is not satisfactory for efficient exploitation of modern information technology in diagnostics, therapy and nursing. The present contribution describes the application of two basic problem solving techniques (brainstorming, SWOT analysis) to develop a project aimed at information literacy enhancement.

[Determination of the bromodeoxyuridine index in multiple myeloma. II. Relation to level of advancement and disease activity].

In a group of 70 subjects with multiple myeloma (MM) formed by 25 patients examined before establishment of the diagnosis and 45 patients evaluated in different developmental stages of the disease, the authors evaluated the relationship between the value of the bromodeoxyuridine "labelling index" (BrdUrd-LI) and the clinical activity, stage and course of the disease. The authors revealed statistically significantly higher values of BrdUrd-LI in the group of patients in the "active" phase of the disease than in the "stable-plateau" phase of the disease. This applies also to findings within different clinical stages of the disease.