ASSESSMENT OF MEDICAL CARE TO OSTEOPOROTIC PATIENTS FROM THE RESULTS OF QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY AMONG PHYSICIANS FROM THE MOSCOW REGION
According to the results of a questionnaire surveys among 503 physicians of 17 specialties from the therapeutic-and-prophylactic institutions of the Moscow Region (MR), the osteoporotic patients constitute 14.2-20.5% of the total flow of patients. The main reasons for low-quality health care to OP patients in the MR are the high cost of antiosteoporotic agents, no federal osteoporosis prevention program, and physicians' inadequate skills in this problem.