E.V. Dubrovina
Medical Information and Analytical Center, city of Kirov

Summary. Aim of the study: to study changes in staff resources charged with collection, processing and analysis of medical statistical information in medical facilities to establish possibility of improvement of statistical service in public health.

Methods and Materials. Main chore in this job was attributed in this study to medical staff with secondary education only, with strong implication that prevailing data files on public health activity and state of health of the population were generated at secondary educational level. Official regulations concerning normal requirements to the level and profile of education of a medical statistician, grade of special statistical knowledge, specific skills required in this job were reviewed in this study. A list of their job functions and staff rolls and quotas for enumerated positions of medical statisticians were also studied into.

Results. This analysis of regulations so far obtainable showed that in the recent four decades no significant changes in staff rolls and quotas had ever occurred, though the scope and nature of job of medical statisticians in medical facilities had changed drastically. Wide range of cases of largely magnified volume of medical information to be collected, processed, and presented was adduced in this study. These processes were paralleled by increment of the roll of accountant reports to be presented, with multiplied rate of their submitting.

Discussion. The importance of statistical service as concerns management of medical establishments and units, as well this Ministry on the whole, was discussed in this study. A crucial role for statistical service for providing information on the state of health of the population to be used in research trials of wide scientific range was outlined in this study. Special skills required for implementation of the International Statistical Classification for conditions and problems pertaining to human health were emphasized in this study as indispensable for adequate account of morbidity and mortality. Nuisances arising with too frequent alterations in the forms of the reports to be submitted, as well as with too short an intervals for elaborating accounting reports, were also discussed in this study. The latter nuisance was interpreted as abusing factor for elaborating reliable and verified information.

Conclusion. Improvements in staff provision for medical statistical service of are strongly needed, and they are quite feasible.

Keywords. Medical statistics; statistical information from a medical facility; accounts and reportof a medical facility; medical statistician; medical staff; staff rolls; Kirov region.

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