Issue: 2021, Vol. 26, No. 1
KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF POLYCLINIC DOCTORS IN HIGH-TECH MEDICAL AID ADMINISTRATION
- Keywords
- high-tech medical aid, knowledge level of medical workers upon the problems of high-tech medical aid.
- Abstarct
- Medical facilities (MF) which administered first medico-sanitary aid in out-patient clinic maintain close contact with patients in order to recommend high-tech medical aid (HTMA) for them. Waiting terms and timeliness of necessary HTMA attendance to patients depend on knowledge level of medical personnel in the field of HTMA rules and regulations. Objective – to estimate the knowledge level of polyclinic doctors in the field of rules and regulations of free HTMA administration. Material and methods. 308 doctors of different specialties who worked in medical facilities of Astrakhan city and Astrakhan region were questioned. The questionnaire included 26 questions which allowed to estimate the knowledge level of medical workers in primary link of public health system concerning problems of patient selection standard for free HTMA administration and receiving in the frames of the Program of government guarantee. Results and discussion. More than half of the questioned persons came across the necessity to direct their patients to receive HTMA. 60,1 % doctor only knew the rules and regulations of HTMA administration and ordinary doctors were more informed in this question (92,2 % respondents), in comparison with the heads of the departments (84,9 %). Almost 94,8 % doctors whose knowledge level concerning HTMA was rather significant wanted to heighten it. Not all specialists possessed information upon financing sources of this aid type. Conclusions. The obtained results substantiated the necessity to introduce standard and legal acts which allowed to regulate HTMA administration, register of its types, selection criteria and direction rules to corresponding clinics for patients, into the programs of academic detailing for medical workers.
Vestnik 1 2021 sbornik-13-16