[Economic mechanisms in decreasing the level of hospitalizations]

Increase of the role of primary health care and decrease of hospitalizations is a pressing medical and economic problem. However, rather often it is beneficial for a medical institution to hospitalize a patient. In order to create stimuli for decreasing the level of hospitalization, medical institutions are to have a share in the economy due to non-hospitalization. Proper validation of the share of the resultant economy is needed to realize this principle.