ABSTRACT
In the Russian Federation, for long time legal uncertainty existed regarding relationship between the standards of medical care and clinical guidelines in organizing medical care support. In the actual legislation, there were no official definitions of concept "clinical guidelines". The obligation of of clinical guidelines implementation was limited by expertise of medical care quality. The article analyzes main stages of development and application of clinical guidelines regulation and their relationship with medical care standards as well. The special attention is paid to changes in regulatory legal acts establishing the clinical guidelines status and the new procedure of their development. The mechanisms of medical care quality control are evaluated. The particular attention is paid to the role of clinical guidelines in organization of population medicinal support.
