Enhancement of the quality of outpatient services and the problems of accessibility of services become more and more important part of the health care reform. The importance of increasing the provision of the services in outpatient institutions and developing of outpatient services of physicians-specialists are the priorities in the plan of re-structuring of health care.
Aim of the study. To analyze the provision and tendencies of the secondary and tertiary level outpatient services to inhabitants of the area Vilnius Territorial Patient Fund in 2003-2005.
Objectives. To evaluate the provision of the secondary level outpatient services by specialty, by municipalities and age groups. To analyze the tertiary level outpatient services by municipalities. To evaluate the changes and tendencies in providing secondary and tertiary level outpatient services.
Materials and methods. Analysis was done using the data of health insurance information system SVEIDRA on inhabitants registered to primary health care institutions and outpatient services provided to inhabitants of the area of Vilnius Territorial Patient Fund in 2003-2005. In order to evaluate distribution of services by municipalities, the number of outpatient services per one inhabitant, registered to primary health care institution, was calculated. Four age groups (0-5, 5-18, 18-65, over 65 years old) were chosen to analyze distribution of services by age groups. The existence of statistically significant differences was... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060613_144747-79451 |
| Date | 13 June 2006 |
| Creators | Tylienė, Violeta |
| Contributors | Kalėdienė, Ramunė, Kairys, Jonas, Petrauskienė, Jadvyga, Misevičienė, Irena, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060613_144747-79451 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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