[Labor standards for providing medical care: theory and practice of use].

This article presents an analysis of the orders of the Ministry of Health of Russian Federation on the procedures for the provision of medical care, of which the recommended staffing standards are an integral part. Systematic erroneous provisions of regulatory documents were identified: general and typical for the normative number of employees in providing medical care to patients in outpatient and hospital settings. The authors have convincingly proved the need to revise documents on the Procedures for the provision of medical care in terms of labor standards.