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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1d1" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-866X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2412-2106</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Joint-Stock Company Chicot</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">208</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.32687/0869-866X-2019-27-6-983-987</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Научная статья</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The modern characteristics of quality of ambulatory polyclinic medical care of patients of elderly age</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Popov</surname><given-names>V. V.</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>fmi2008@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Novikova</surname><given-names>I. A.</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>-</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff-1">The Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Northern State Medical University” of Minzdrav of Russia</aff><pub-date date-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2019-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>27</volume><issue>6</issue><fpage>983</fpage><lpage>987</lpage><history><pub-date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-04-06"><day>06</day><month>04</month><year>2021</year></pub-date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2019,</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2019</copyright-year></permissions><abstract>The organization of out-patient care of elderly people has its own clinical and organizational characteristics.The study was carried out to establish quality factors of ambulatory polyclinic medical care of elderly people from the position of attending physician. The sampling consisted of 80 physicians interviewed. Out of them 70 were females (87.5%), 50 local therapists and general practitioners and 30 physicians of various specialties. The genuinely elaborated questionnaire was applied. Results and discussion. It is established that most physicians are aware of the need of improving quality of medical care of elderly patients and developing geriatric care. The percentage of elderly patients in ambulatory polyclinic network makes up to 50%, and in particular cases up to 60-70%. The majority of elderly patients visit their physician 1-2 times per month. More than 50% of physicians consider elderly patients have to be observed by physicians of geriatric profile that confirms actual need in this medical specialty. The social and organizational factors of quality of medical care are identified: insufficient duration of physician admission, low level of preferential medications support, lacking of cash resources in patients to purchase prescribed medications, difficulties in making an appointment to medical specialist and district physician, difficult access of medical organization. The orientation of doctors in provision of care to elderly patients only to medication therapy is established. Conclusion. 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