| Abstract: | There are only as many as 31 specialized oncourological departments in 24 of 89 (27%) Federation Subjects in the Russian Federation that can render the oncourological care at the municipal and federal levels. As for other remaining 65 (73%) Subjects, the urologists are preoccupied with diagnosis and treatment of urinary-bladder cancer in them. Russian patient-care facilities have presently differing opportunities in the sphere of diagnosis and treatment of the mentioned pathology. Their related outfit for this purpose is on the whole unsatisfactory. An optimal management of medical care rendered to the discussed category of patients and targeted at promoting its quality and efficiency is possible only on the basis of standardization of diagnostic and treatment approaches. The stage-nature of medical care rendered to such patients is closely related the standardization issues. An accurate definition of stages and of patient-care facilities, which would be in charge for the above stages, would, in the end, clearly depict a sequence of steps for the diagnostic-and-therapeutic schemes applicable to patients with cancer of the urinary bladder. This, in its turn, would optimize the diagnostic-and-therapeutic process and outline the priority spheres in healthcare financing. |
