Provision of the Russian population with inpatient ophthalmologicalmedical care

Introduction. The level of provision of the population with bed resources is one of the key indicators of the availability of specialized medical care (SMC).

Purpose is to study the provision of the Russian population with specialized ophthalmological medical care, depending on the incidence of eye disorders.

Material and methods. The assessment of population provision with specialized ophthalmological medical care was carried out on the base of an analysis of data from federal forms of statistical reporting forms of Russian Federation regions over 2017. Statistical processing of the material included methods of descriptive statistics; calculation of average and relative values. Spearman’s rank correlation method was used to determine the correlation between quantitative variables.

Results. The value of indicator of population provision with ophthalmological beds (OB) per 100 thousand of the population: the minimum — 1.8, the maximum — 55.1, the average — 11.9 beds. The average value of the number of days of an OB occupation per year in Russia is 314 ± 33. The average value of the duration of the patient’s stay in the OB is 6.5 ± 1.4 days. The average indicator value of the Russian population general morbidity with the organ of vision and its adnexa diseases is 10,462 ± 3,069 cases per 100 thousand of the population. The rank correlation coefficient of the indicators of the provision of the population with OB and the indicators of eye diseases incidence is 0.05 at p > 0.05.

Limitations. The research materials are limited to the results of the analysis of data from federal forms of statistical reporting of Russian Federation regions for 2017.

Conclusion. The provision of the population of the Russian Federation regions with ophthalmological beds does not correlate with the incidence rates of eye diseases (r = 0.05 at p > 0.05). For the first time, a comparative assessment of the actual provision of the population of the Russian Federation with ophthalmological beds is given in comparison with the recommended standard: 12 versus 10.7 beds per 100 thousand of the population, respectively. The number of days of occupation of an ophthalmic bed per year was found do not increase with an increase in the average time of hospitalization of an ophthalmic patient, but decreases with a certain degree of probability (r = (–0.25) at p < 0.05).

Compliance with ethical standards. This study did not require the opinion of the Biomedical Ethics Committee (the study was performed on publicly available official statistics).

Contribution of the authors:
Khodzhaev N.S. — research concept and design;
Chuprov A.D. — research concept and design, editing;
Lositskiy A.O. — collection and processing of material, writing the text;
Trubnikov V.A. — collection and processing of material, writing the text, compilation of the list of literature, statistical data processing;
Tonaeva Kh.D. — collection and processing of material;
Kazakova T.N. — compilation of the list of literature.
All authors are responsible for the integrity of all parts of the manuscript and approval of the manuscript final version.

Acknowledgment. The study had no sponsorship.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest. 

Received: August 13, 2021
Accepted: October 20, 2021
Published: February 28, 2023