Results of a sociological survey among doctors and patients on the implementation and operation of a new organizational form — outpatient psychiatric unit — operating on the basis of the Psychiatric clinical hospital No. 13, Moscow Healthcare Department, is presented in the article. Advantages of this organizational form in comparison with hospital treatment are shown: reduced treatment period, proximity, volumes of treatment comparable with hospital treatment, maximum social adaptation of patients. Some problematic issues of the unit’s operation are identified: lack of continuity in the interaction between the individual structures of the new organizational form, as well as with other health care organizations.
The paper presents the results of sociological survey among doctors and patients concerning the introduction of a new outpatient psychiatric module at one of the medical mental health facilities of Moscow-Mental Hospital No. 13 of the Moscow Healthcare Department. The study utilized the following methods: analysis of the best practices, analytical, sociological, comparative analysis. The study reveals the advantages of this organizational form prior to hospital treatment (faster social adaptation of patients, reduction of treatment period, territorial accessibility, treatment similar to the one provided by a medical institution). Besides, the study defines some current problems (need to improve the interaction within divisions of a new organizational form, enhance the continuity of the outpatient module with other medical organizations, etc.).
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