Quality performance of medical service in rural treatment-and-prophylactic institutions in Tomsk region

• Main Author: N. V. Zakotnova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Siberian State Medical University (Tomsk) 2004-09-01
• Series: Bûlleten' Sibirskoj Mediciny
• Subjects: medical service quality; rural health protection
• Online Access: https://bulletin.tomsk.ru/jour/article/view/3662

Rural treatment-and-prophylactic institutions (TPI) and mainly central regional hospitals (CRH) – the key rural health protection units – insufficiently control and improve the medical service system quality due to a number of reasons. In rural CRH a number of incomplete examination cases and, consequently, a number of wrong diagnosis cases is higher significantly. Incomplete treatment becomes evident in rural areas more frequently as well. As a result the treatment quality in rural CRH is lower significantly than in Tomsk TPI. It is necessary to draw a special attention to the problem of rural medical service quality increase and to liven up the control of privided medical service quality in regional centers.