title: The current availability of neurological in-patient services in post-communist central and eastern European countries.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Limited information can be obtained as to the availability of neurological in-patient services in the former communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. The objective was to analyse data received directly from representatives of the particular countries.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data were collected under the auspices of the 'First European Cooperation Neurology Workshop' held in April 2000, in Trest, Czech Republic. Neurologists from 15 post-communist countries provided information from their respective countries. Linear trends in graphs including the reliability value R(2) were used in the analysis of correlations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data from 14 countries were assembled and trends were analysed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Direct relationships were found between: (1) the average department size and the average catchment area (R(2) = 0.1015); (2) the percentage of districts with a neurological in-patient department and the gross national product (GNP) per capita (R(2) = 0.1359); (3) the average neurological department size and the GNP per capita (R(2) = 0.1135), and (4) the average length of treatment and the number of neurological beds/100,000 inhabitants (R(2) = 0.1745). Inverse relationships were found between: (1) the number of neurological beds/100,000 inhabitants and the average hospital catchment area (R(2) = 0.2105), and (2) the number of neurological beds/100,000 inhabitants and the GNP per capita (R(2) = 0.1144).
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Neurology, Faculty Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Herzig
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kalvach
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Petkova
authors.forename: Vlasta
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vuković
authors.forename: Nina L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Tsakadze
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bereczki
authors.forename: Sorin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tuta
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martiníková
authors.forename: Uros
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rot
authors.forename: Sokrat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xhaxho
authors.forename: Emiliya
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sidorovich
authors.forename: Viiu-Marika
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Rand
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zaborski
authors.forename: Mihail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gavriliuc
authors.forename: Inna V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Reminyak
mesh_terms: D003148:Communism / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004467:Economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005061:Europe, Eastern; D006276:Health Facility Size / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D009462:Neurology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors