The impact of controllable factors on mortality due to diseases of digestive system in Tverskaya oblast

The article deals with the assessment of the impact of various social, biological and medical factors on the level of mortality of diseases of digestive organs in hospitals of certain districts of Tverskaya oblast. The controllable factors are determined impacting on the level of mortality of digestive system pathology and depending mainly of organization and quality of medical care at various stages of patient monitoring. The expertise technique was applied to evaluate the tactics of carried out treatment and the causes of diagnostics errors entailing preventable death and possibility of preventing lethal outcome. The study results can be used by health administrations and medical institutions to develop target programs reducing the preventable mortality of population. Another direction ? to impact specific causes of death in various subjects of the Russian Federation considering territorial characteristics of local health services and resource support of health care system in particular region.