[Medico-social and economic aspects of the rehabilitation of patients with laryngeal cancer]. / Mediko-sotsial'nye i ékonomicheskie aspekty reabilitatsii bol'nykh rakom gortani.

The results of therapy and rehabilitation of the target and control groups of patients with laryngeal cancer, each consisting of 70 people, demonstrated that the method of reconstructive subtotal resection of the larynx as compared to its extirpation was efficient and advantageous in medical, social and economic terms. The advantages of the modified method were verified clinically and statistically. In the target group every other patient and in the control group only one out of four patients regained their normal work capacity. The expenses for research and development paid off within a year.

[The economic and sociomedical efficiency of innovations in the practice of health protection]. / L'efficience économique et médico-sociale des innovations et la pratique de la protection de la santé.

The article discusses techniques for assessing the economic and medico-social efficiency of innovations introduced into health care practice starting from the example of a new procedure (prodigiosin inhalations) in prevention of ENT disorders and of influenza in preschool children. The analysis bears on the role and importance of evaluations of this type in the implementation of scientific findings, as well as in restructuring the health care sector and reorienting biomedical research. The authors contend that the expanding area of innovation use does not trigger more than insignificant rises in costs (costs allocated to scientific research, for instance), whereas cost containment is almost directly proportional to the expanding applications. It can, therefore, be concluded that imposing limitations and delays in the implementation of efficient innovations bars cost savings and diminishes the actual economic efficiency of biomedical research.