Conference of Officers in Charge of Government Hospitals Serving Veterans of the World War
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Conference of Officers in Charge of Government Hospitals Serving Veterans of the World War
Medicine, Military; Military hospitals; World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Medical care -- United States
13. There should be surgical operative facilities provided with
sufficient equipment and competent organized personnel to meet
properly all ordinary surgical emergencies and to perform all
ordinary surgical operations in a manner and with results which
meet general professional approval.
14. There should be clinical laboratory facilities or definite
arrangements for these facilities to properly carry out clinical,
bacteriological, serological, x-ray and fluoroscopic examinations.
15. Physiotherapy: provision for special treatment, such as
hydrotherapy and electrotherapy.
16. The systematic use of occupations for their therapeutic effects,
under the direction of workers specially trained for this duty.
17. Special attention to recreation and diversion with reference to
their therapeutic value.
18. Patients to be taught the elementary principles necessary to
secure co-operation in treatment.
19. No charges to be made for patients absent from hospital for more
than 24 hours.
20. No extra charges to be made the patient for thermometer, sputum
cups, reclining chairs, blankets, medicines or special diet, nor
for any other article of a similar nature furnished without charge
to a patient in Government sanatoriums.
_ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITALS_
1. Resident physicians skilled in tuberculosis—if not living actually
on the premises, to be available in five minutes or less. (Not
less than 1 for 50 patients.)
2. Outdoor sleeping facilities, or in lieu thereof, provisions for
unlimited ventilation of rooms.
3. Suitable rules prescribed for conduct and published rules
providing for a satisfactory regimen of treatment in tuberculosis
hospitals.
4. Satisfactory treatment conditions, including measures for
enforcing suitable discipline and to prevent absence without leave
and to prevent excessive exercise, whether from amusement or
otherwise.
_ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR NEURO-PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS_
1. Direction of the administration of the hospital and leadership in
its medical work by physicians trained in the diagnosis and
treatment of mental diseases.
2. An adequate medical staff organized so that duties are divided in
accordance with the training of its different members and with the
requirements of the clinical work.
3. Regular and frequent conferences of the medical staff at which the
diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of each new case admitted are
considered and at which cases about to be discharged are
presented, training in psychiatry for new members of the staff
being considered as a special object.
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