Medical and demographic particularities of the contingent of children who underwent ultrasonic examination in multidisciplinary hospital

Abstract

Ultrasound diagnostics is not just a screening method, but is a tool that plays an important role in making the correct final diagnosis. Due to this, the demand for ultrasonic examinations has increased significantly in recent years.

Purpose of the study. Study of age-related particularities of ultrasonic examinations prescription and passage in multi-discipline hospital by children.

Materials and methods. The analysis of medical records for 1435 patients aged from 0 to 18 years, who underwent ultrasonic examination in multidiscipline hospital, was conducted.

Results. The majority (61.4%) of pediatric patients of hospital received medical services within the framework of high-tech medical care. The significant proportion (32%) were children, who were examined and treated under compulsory health insurance system. Paid medical services accounted for 5.8% and voluntary health insurance — for 0.8%. It was established that newborn children significantly (p<0,05) were more often referred for ultrasonic examinations from pediatric, urological and surgical departments. In the first year of life the ultrasonic examinations were need to patients from pediatric, rheumatology and urological departments. This trend continued in subsequent periods. In the same time, the proportion of pediatric patients from gastroenterological departments increases in primary school age. The conducted analysis also showed that with increasing of the children age referred ultrasonic examinations, the proportion of patients from Nephrology, cardiology, dermatology and rheumatology departments increases while from urolog¬ical and surgical departments — decreases.

Conclusion. The distribution of hospital pediatric patients who underwent ultrasonic examination, by its types, sources of findings and the frequency of re-hospitalizations depends on the age of children.