[A comprehensive evaluation of the management effectiveness in a multi-specialty hospital].

The medical-and-economic efficiency, involving the traditional, newly designed and tested methodic approaches, was evaluated in respect to 19 inhospital department of a multidiscipline hospital in the city of Yekaterinburg. A necessity was proven to use the integral indices in assessing the medical efficiency. The economic and medical efficiencies were found to coincide in 62.

[Economic problems of a regional hospital under conditions of the development of medical services market].

Administration of hospitals has to organize their activities under conditions of limited financing. Improvement of the efficiency of finances utilization is the subject of financial policy of an institution, which adapts to changes in the mechanism of Russian public health functioning.

[Main principles of rapid diagnosis and intensive care in emergency states: their realization in expert systems].

A retrospective analysis of 543 case histories over 1980-1990 in the town of Yekaterinburg and analysis of published data permitted the authors to single out the signs characterizing the most frequent syndromes requiring urgent intensive care. By either diagnostic value, these signs are distributed into main, accessory, and ruling out. An expert system has been created, making use of the productive-Freimont's approach to representing information on the basis of blurred multiplicities and ambiguous logics.