A Large-scale Follow-up Study of Smokers Visiting Medical Facilities in Japan.

In order to determine smoking cessation rates among those who visit medical facilities in Japan, a large-scale follow-up study was conducted. Subjects were self-reported smokers who visited a cancer hospital, a general hospital, or one of four health checkup facilities in 1997-98. Their smoking habits were followed by two postal surveys.

[Understanding level on tuberculosis among hospital nurses].

Tuberculosis control in big cities should be focused on preventing defaulting from treatment, and the prevention of the emergence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and the improvement of treatment success rate. Since it is needed to organize continued case management system starting from hospitalization, discharge, management of regular drug taking at outpatient clinics and final cure, close collaboration should be made between hospital nurses and public health nurses. For this purpose, there should be no difference about the understanding on tuberculosis control between clinical and public health nurses.