Meditsinskaya pomoshch' v dnevnykh statsionarakh okazyvaetsya kak v odnoy iz peredovykh form statsionarozameshchayushchikh tekhnologiy. Dnevnoy statsionar prednaznachen dlya provedeniya meditsinskikh meropriyatiy patsientam, ne trebuyushchim kruglosutochnogo meditsinskogo nablyudeniya, s primeneniem sovremennykh metodov diagnostiki i lecheniya s uchetom pokazaniy i protivopokazaniy. Sushchestvuet spetsifika okazaniya meditsinskoy pomoshchi v dnevnykh statsionarakh pediatricheskogo profilya: psikhologicheskikh osobennostey razlichnykh periodov detskogo vozrasta, rasporyadka dnya rebenka, uchebnogo protsessa detey shkol'nogo vozrasta. Lechenie v dnevnom statsionare pozvolyaet sokhranit' privychnye sotsial'nye kontakty, uklad zhizni rebenka. Kachestvo meditsinskoy pomoshchi baziruetsya na printsipakh dokazatel'noy meditsiny i sovremennykh predstavleniy o kachestve okazaniya meditsinskoy pomoshchi. Voznikayut teoreticheskie problemy pri otsenke kachestva meditsinskoy pomoshchi, osobenno v svyazi s tem, chto masshtaby organizatsii okazaniya meditsinskoy pomoshchi v usloviyakh dnevnogo prebyvaniya patsienta, ne dostigli obosnovannogo nauchnymi raschetami urovnya.