Purpose. Assessment of the received emergency medical services (EMS) in patients with cardiological profile in the South Kazakhstan region.Materials and methods. A sociological study was carried out among three compared groups: group 1 — patients of the regional cardiological center (312); 2nd — those who applied to rural outpatient clinics, polyclinics, hospitals (244), and the 3rd — who applied to the central district hospital (228).Results. The analysis showed that 65.1% of the respondents applied for EMS over the diseases of the circulatory system, mostly they did it 1–2 times a year (44.9%), less often several times a month (15.1%). Several times a week 5.1% of patients were called to EMS. It was found that in 65.5% of cases there was a rapid arrival of the EMS, less than 20 minutes. It should be noted that a long wait for the arrival of the EMS (45 minutes or more) took place in 10.2% of cases. The waiting time, as the reason for the dissatisfaction of the EMS, was more often called the respondents of the 2 nd and 3 rd groups — 94.1% and 93.9% versus 76.5% in the 1st group (p < 0.05). Inattentive attitude of the staff was more often noted by the patients of the 3rd group, and the low availability of free medication was most often indicated in the 1st group.Conclusion. The received characteristic of the EMS and its assessment by patients with diseases of the circulatory system should be taken into account when developing a package of measures to optimize cardiac care in the region.
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