[Dispensary care of persons suffering from non-tuberculous respiratory diseases in czechoslovakia (author's transl)].

In Czechoslovakia phtisiology was enlarged into the specialization of tuberculosis and respiratory diseases by a decree of the Ministry of Health in 1966. The dispensary care of pneumophtisiological institutions aims--besides tuberculosis control--especially at the following groups of patients suffering from non-tuberculous respiratory diseases: 1. cases having tendency to deterioration or with a complicated course, 2. cases with functional disorders of the respiratory system, 3. cases in conditions which may influence unfavourably the respiratory disease. When patients with non-tuberculous respiratory diseases are in the care of other physicians, the pneumophtisiologists render necessary consultations and decide which patients will be taken over into the dispensary care of pneumophtisiological department.