The age structure of patients hospitalized on beds of medical emergency service in the Russian Federation

The state program of the Russian Federation “The Development of Health Care” sets the task to increase the efficiency of emergency medical care provision that is implemented including the development of emergency medical care in hospital conditions.The purpose of the study is to examine age composition of patients hospitalized at emergency medical care beds in the Russian Federation in 2016–2025.The normative legal documents regulating organization of emergency medical care in hospital conditions, data from the Federal statistical observation form № 30 for 2016–2025 concerning the number of children and adults admitted on emergency medical care beds were analyzed. The methods of descriptive statistics were applied.As a result of implementation of organizational technologies of emergency medical care provision in hospital conditions in the Russian Federation in 2016–2025, it is determined that the rate of hospitalization of children on emergency medical care beds increased from 1.76 to 2.66 per 1,000 population aged 0–17 years, adults — from 1.4 to 8.41 per 1,000 population aged 18 years and older. The rate of hospitalization of children on short-stay emergency medical care beds decreased from 1.62 to 0.89 per 1000 population aged 0–17 years. This indicator for adults increased from 0.98 to 5.18 per 1000 population aged 18 years and older. The rate of hospitalization of children on day stay emergency medical care beds increased from 0.14 to 1.77 per 1000 population aged 0–17 years, adults — from 0.42 to 3.23 per 1000 population aged 18 years and older.