C O N T E N T S

 Accents
V. Ovcharov — Safety of patients (page 2)
Actual information from NCHI (page 3)

 Social medicine
V. Borisov — Social medicine in circular motion (page 4)
K. Kalinov — Diagnosis related groups and their application for hospital care reimbursment (page 7)
N. Danova, J. Golemanova, Ò. Ivanova, M. Ganova — Satisfaction of the population with inpatient care (page 11)
P. Tzonov — Public health and municipal healthcare (page 15)
B. Davidov — Young researchers in the field of ageing (page 19)

 Epidemiology
S. Vassilev, T. Tomov — Childhood adversities – their prevalence, structure and significance in Bulgaria (page 22)
K. Dokova — Reasons for low precision of antihypertensive treatment among rural population (page 27)
T. Rajcheva, V. Bogdanova, A. Ljubenova — Development of the policy on prevention and minimizing the health hazards of narcotic dependency in Bulgaria (page 30) D. Vuchev — The return of visceral leishmaniasis in Bulgaria (page 34)

 Healthcare management
M.Ganova-Jolovska — Healthcare systems in some European countries (page 37)
N. Nikolov — Personnel crisis and human resources’ management in Irish hospitals – situation, perspective and lessons for Bulgaria (page 41)
P. Balkanska — Psychometric indicators of commitment and loyalty to the healthcare organization (page 44)
D. Solodukhina, L. Georgieva — Inppropriate hospitalozations among elderly patients (page 48)
A. Stoimenova — The consultant role of pharmacists and their continuing education (page 51)
L. Georgieva — Mental health of elderly people after hospital treatment (page 56)
S. Dimitrova, J. Marinova — Preplanned care – a new concept to show respect to autonomy of patient (page 59)
M.Ganova-Jolovska — Assessment and conclusions on the influence of diagnostic related groups on the healthcare expenditures and quality of treatment (page 61)

 Informatics
M. Vukov — Why modern medical specialists and the students should study Biostatistics and what should they know in this scientific field (page 63)
L. Kunchev — Nanotechnologies in medicine (page 67)
N. Todorova — European database “Health for all” (page 70)
D. Tcharaktchiev, H. Dimitrov, S. Zacharieva, Ì. Ìarinov, S. Vandeva, V. Vassilev, Ì. Yaneva, À. Elenkova, Å. Natchev, G. Kirilov, I. Àtanasova, R. Ivanova — Database for patients with pituitary and adrenal tumors (page 73)

 Economics
A. Delcheva — Health indicators in international ratings of competitiveness (page 80)
M. Vladimirova — Approaches for analysis and increase of hospital efficiency (page 82)

 History of medicine
Dr. Vladimir Kalaydzhiev (pages 85)

 Art and medicine (pages 84, 88, 92)

 In memoriam (page 91)


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