[Changes of medical in-patients from 1960 to 1977 (author's transl)].

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.