title: [Mean number of surgical interventions and number of engaged physicians' in general surgical departments in different health care systems].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We examined some data from surgical departments during health care reform (1998-2004) in two different regions of Poland.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed number of surgical interventions and number of engaged physicians' in 60 surgical departments in two different regions of Poland from 1998 to 2004 during health care reform.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We showed significant systematical increase of number of surgical intervention in major surgical departments (more than 30 beds). In minor surgical departments (less than 30 beds) increase number of surgical interventions were observed only to the year 2001. We didn't showed changes in number of engaged physicians' in the analyzed period. We observed that ratio: number of surgical intervention/number of engaged physicians' increase only to the year 2002.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This preliminary data showed beneficial trends in health care during the reform.
authors.affiliation: Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny im. M. Kopernika w Łodzi. alergol@kopernik.lodz.pl
authors.forename: Włodzimierz
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stelmach
authors.forename: Elzbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Olas-Janaszkiewicz
authors.forename: Irena
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maniecka-Bryła
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bryła
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000600:supply & distribution; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*