Implementation of the concept of standard operating procedures into primary care practice: utopia or urgent need?

The article emphasizes the need to develop and apply standard operating procedures (SOP) as an instrument of quality management system of rational pharmacotherapy in primary care practice. To justify the reasonability of SOP implementation into outpatient clinical practice pharmacoepidemiologic analysis of the quality of care provided to patients with stable coronary artery disease in the primary care setting of Moscow over two consecutive periods was used. tte key variables of interest were characteristics that reflected physician adherence to clinical practice guidelines.