[Allocation of additional funds for development of public health]. / O privlechenii dopolnitel'nykh sredtstv na razvitie zdravookhraneniia.

The Gorky N. A. Semashko Regional Clinical Hospital has the long-term experience in drawing additional means into patients' treatment at the expense of enterprises and collective farms on the strength of the agreement on cooperation. In order to expand cost accounting in public health it is necessary to determine cost indices in the work of curative and preventive facilities. Total cost of the provision of various types of medical services and that per patient have been calculated in the Gorky Regional Hospital. Besides current expenditure they involve the main funds, estimated by annual indices. Complete cost of 306 diagnostic and treatment procedures have been determined. Proceeding from the data obtained complete actual costs of diagnostic and treatment procedures per patient on 105 nosologic forms have been identified along with the expenditure on these nosologic forms that is necessary for modern diagnostic and treatment care.