Socio-Economic Aspects of Digitalizing the Diagnostic Process in Urology

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.200730.098How to use a DOI?

Keywords

socially significant issues, economic efficiency, medical care, interdistrict urological center, diagnostic measures, ultrasound

Abstract

This article highlights socially significant issues of organization and digitalization of the regional system of medical urological care in Russia, which determine its diagnostic and economic efficiency. The questions of the organization of the regional system of medical urological care in Russia are highlighted. It is based on the principles of prevention and active early detection of diseases. Of particular importance for ensuring the correct and efficient organization of this system of medical care is the inter-district urological centers. They focus on qualified specialists who have sufficient instrumental base for carrying out the necessary diagnostic measures. The data summarizing the results of diagnostic work on the basis of the Rossosh inter-district urological center during 2018 is presented. The contingent of the examined is characterized taking into account their age and place of residence. The most important place in the algorithm for examining patients with a urological profile is given to ultrasound, which allows correct assessment of the zonal architectonics of the prostate gland. The experience of using ultrasound for the detection of prostate diseases in men of various age groups is presented. The summary values of the identified ultrasound changes associated with various nosolic forms are given. The methodological difficulties of ultrasound detection of prostate cancer are highlighted. An analysis of the significance of the transrectal ultrasound method of research was carried out, which allowed determining ways to increase its information content to ensure effective ultrasound diagnosis of prostate cancer.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - I.V. Zinchenko
AU  - S.V. Popov
AU  - L.A. Titova
AU  - I.V. Popov
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/01
TI  - Socio-Economic Aspects of Digitalizing the Diagnostic Process in Urology
BT  - Proceedings of the Russian Conference on Digital Economy and Knowledge Management (RuDEcK 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 538
EP  - 541
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200730.098
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200730.098
ID  - Zinchenko2020
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