title: [The analysis and assessment of endocrinology department functioning].
abstract: The article deals with the data related to the functioning of the multi-field hospital endocrinology department in industrial megapolis of Western Ural during the last twenty years. It is demonstrated that that the endocrinology bed during aforementioned time period worked with overload. The decrease of mean duration of treatment, increase of bed turnover permitted to enhance the effectiveness of its usage almost twice. The organization of the diabetes mellitus patients school decreased the numbers of emergency calls and lethality two times. In the conditions of overcoming the deficiency of public medical institutions financing and limited public health resources the upcoming reorganization of medical institutions net is to be based on the results of consecutive and systematic assessment of actual population need in hospital care.
mesh_terms: D001509:Bed Occupancy / Q000639:trends; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D004704:Endocrinology / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D012426:Russia