The analysis of the contingent of patients with rheumatic diseases taken under dispensary observation (DO) in 1985-1986 (625 persons) showed that in many polyclinics of Moscow and the Moscow region there took place substantial changes in the contingent of these patients and extension of its scope at the expense of inclusion of all nosological forms corresponding to the Regulation of the USSR Ministry of Health. Yet untimely detection and prophylactic medical examination of a great number of patients with rheumatic diseases (RD) was noted. Patients with deforming osteoarthrosis were not given due consideration. The stage of the disease and the functional ability of patients with RD were not always recorded. There were considerable quantitative and qualitative differences in the contingents of patients newly taken under dispensary observation in different polyclinics. The elimination of the above mentioned shortcomings will increase the efficacy of the prophylactic medical examination of patients with RD in polyclinics of Moscow and the Moscow region.
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Monash Bioeth Rev
January 2025
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Riad El Solh, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon.
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