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Detailed Needs and Requirements: Clinical Studies Unit
527.1.5
Trends
1. Teaching
Currently V.A. hospitals do not provide a comprehensive patient base
for adequate training in endocrinology and metabolism. Residents,
interns, and medical students do not have an opportunity for contact
with a large range of metabolic or endocrine problems due to the small
number of women and children patients in V.A. hospitals.
Future developments may increase the number of such patients in V.A.
hospitals, with corresponding effect on clinical studies unit.
2. Medical Care
As physicians become more familiar with the functions and capabilities
of clinical studies units and as knowledge of the relation between
metabolic processes and disease is expanded the demand for beds in
these units may well increase. In addition, this may result in an
increased need for supporting facilities or services, e.g. radiographic
and fluoroscopic facilities, constant temperature rooms, or radioisotope
lab facilities.
3. Technology
It is likely that the use of physiological monitoring equipment, including
telemetry, will increase in the future. The use of radioisotope in the
study of various conditions may also increase.
Computerized monitoring, analysis and record keeping equipment will
undoubtedly increase as more sophisticated systems and equipment
are developed.
527.2
FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
527.2.1
Functional Relationships
Figure 520-9 illustrates an optimum relationship between the clinical
studies unit and hemodialysis and gastroenterology units.
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