Collection of data in investigations done in the Research Institute's laboratory of the clinical physiology of breathing, and their computerization.

The authors discuss the problem of the need for and utilization of a computer in the research and clinical laboratory, of the Research Institute's department of the clinical physiology of breathing. They report on their own way of an economical use of computers for the collection, storage and evaluation of data. Most important is a uniform approach to the arrangement of data in the databank, which makes it possible, even with a different number and type of data about the patients examined and with different kinds of sets, to use a wide range of statistical, computing, sorting and graphic methods without any modifications and without the development of new programmes.