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Investigated age‐related differences in MMPI scale scores from 1,189 individuals (ages 20 to 64 years) who were applying for psychiatric treatment. All major scales except L, K, D, and SI showed statistically significant age group differences. In general, older patients had higher scores on HS and HY, while younger patients had higher scores on F, PD, PA, PT, SC, MA. These results underscore the importance of the age of the patient in the clinical interpretation of an individual protocol.

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During the 1981 SCAMC, the author presented a paper entitled, "A COMPUTER DATA BASE FOR CLINIC-IANS, MANAGERS AND RESEARCHERS," describing the Ccmputer System at the Salt Lake VA Medical Center. Following the Symposium, there were many requests for information about the system from all over the United States, Canada and Australia. The Veterans Administration software is in the public domain. However, the mental health part of the system includes approximately 80 psychological tests and about 20 interviews, many of which are copyrighted by various publishers. Upon request and upon receipt of individual copyright agreements, we have furnished portions of the software to individuals who have access to comparable ccmputer systems operating in MUMPS. There were many requests for similar applications for micro camputers. The software was initially designed for a fairly large system and without considerable modification would not run on a micro ccmputer.

A paper entitled "A COMPUTER DATA BASE FOR CLINICIANS, MANAGERS AND RESEARCHERS," presented during the 1981 SCAMC, described the Salt Lake VA Medical Center computer system. Since that time, two Rural Health Clinics each about 150 miles from Salt Lake City were established by the SL VAMC to reduce traveling distances and improve services for Veterans. Although many existing computer applications were available with no modifications, additional software was needed to support unique needs of the clinics. The Rural Health package of software was designed to gather and store demographic and clinical information on each Veteran, determine the types of services provided, track services over time, monitor services provided by local hospitals and clinical laboratories which are paid for by the VA, determine total clinic costs, etc. These computer applications may be of interest to Medical Centers with separate clinics or outreach programs and individuals or groups in private practice with programs similar to the VA Rural Health Clinics.