Patient executive control (PEC) in the primary health care system on the example of idiopathic scoliosis in children

The publication highlights the concept of patient executive control (PEC) in pediatric and adolescent orthopedics, as well as the means of achieving it, which is proposed for use in the domestic health care system. The authors identified the key areas of modernization of primary care in the provision of orthopedic and traumatological care to children and adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. Among them, a special place is occupied by the development and testing of checklists and scales for assessing the orthopedic status for primary care specialists, planning and implementation of a pilot project on early detection of pathology, prescribing and conducting conservative brace treatment in order to reduce the degree of scoliotic deformity of the spine in growing patients, clinical justification for the inclusion of compensation for the costs of implementing this treatment in the compulsory health insurance system (CHI).

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