[Experience with the organization of research in phthisiopulmonology under present economic conditions].

Transfer to new economic forms of management in the branch science requires, methodological lay-out with due regard for the medical science specificity. On the model of phthisiopulmonology, the Moscow Research Institute of Tuberculosis, the RSFSR Ministry of Public Health, is developing a new system for the work of scientific institutions (a problem research centre, PRC). The system is based on solution of a number of scientific and organizational tasks: development of the procedure for choosing goals and problems, estimation of the priority of the trends in research studies, development of efficient procedures for introduction of scientific achievements into practice, establishment of economic control levers for management of the science and introduction into practice of its achievements, etc. The primary experience indicated that the PRC was promising when a system approach to organization of its activity and adequate methods for planning and arrangement of the branch science were used.