Standards and orders of medical care in practice of a medical organization
From the author’s point of view, healthcare modernization program is aimed at creating market approaches in the health-care sphere and medical services competition improvement. Under the conditions of imperfect and non-price-oriented medical services, the efficacy of a medical institution will be determined by the quality and accessibility of the medical services provided. Their evaluation is to be based on standards and certain algorithms. At the same time, the author assumes that the standards and algorithms having been approved by the Healthcare Ministry of Russia do not serve, to the full amount, the interests of the patients and cannot be used as criteria for medical services quality control.