[Compliance and active cooperation of patients in preventing recurrence of urinary calculi].

An anonymous questioning of 200 patients with urinary calculi concerning the observation of the general and special measures of the metaphylaxis of urinary calculi resulted in the fact that in particular the measures of the general metaphylaxis (bodily movement, diet, dilution of the urine) are not or only parlty obeyed by a large part of the patients. The examinations show that for the improvement of the understanding of the disease and the behaviour of the patients concerning their health further on a great attension must be paid to the quality of the information by the physician and to the communication between physician and patient. An insufficient cooperation of the patients in the metaphylaxis of the urinary calculi would call in question the effectivity of all efforts and measures concerning the prevention of relapses.