[Health care activities for outpatients with non-tuberculous lung diseases by the departments for pulmonary diseases and tuberculosis (author's transl)].

Development of capacities and activities of the outpatient departments for pulmonary diseases and tuberculosis (PALT) is represented by the annual reports. At present, patients with non-tuberculous lung diseases are prevailing. Most of them are sent by physicians working in basic public-health-service. Special diagnostic and therapy should be done in close co-operation with the family physicians, the industrial physicians and the hospital physicians; above all this specialized medical care has to contain activities, which are concentrated in these departments, because it is suitable for the patients.