To the question of relevance of outpatient psychiatric unit (sociological aspect)

Abstract

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.