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The aim of the paper is to shed light upon the political background of an early Serbian critic of French sociological school and method in law. Its working hypothesis is that this critic reveals a conservative character of Serbian Staatrechts theory advocated by Slobodan Jovanović, Živojin Perić and their followers. Based on the idea of social consciousness as a source of law, on judicial creativity and the free scientifically based legal research, the French sociological school stood clearly against statist and elitist mainstream of Serbian legal theory which idealized the State as the unique sovereign power in its capacity to create the law. This paper endeavors to contribute not only to a better understanding of the reception of sociological method in Serbia, but also to a critical analysis of the ideological foundation of the 20th century Serbian legal thought.

PATH (Performance Assessment Tool for Quality Improvement in Hospitals), a project of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Europe offers hospitals a comprehensive and standardized tool (a set of indicators) to evaluate their own performance and development of measures for quality improvement. PATH Program was launched in Croatia in 2008, and it was conducted in 2009 in hospitals that have voluntarily decided to be involved. Here we present the results of the first phase of pilot experience of establishing the program, based on data collected in 22 Croatian hospitals. Analysis of the first results indicated the existence of marked differences among the hospitals that have taken the example of the percentage of cesarean sections ranging from 1.1% to 21.4%. The mortality rate of myocardial infarction ranged from 1.9 to 21.4%, while the mortality of stroke ranged from 12.5 to 45.5%. The highest percentage of needle-stick injuries reported for physicians was 16.2% of entire hospital staff in one year, 6.1% for nurses and 4.6% for the supportive staff. The result suggests the existence of many problems and limitations in data collection at hospital level, limitations in their analysis and creates recommendations for quality improvements, which must be taken into account when hospitals are compared on the national or international level.

In persons with chronic active hepatitis (35) and chronic persistent hepatitis (23) the CH 50 values, Clq, Cls, C4, C3, C5, and C9 as well as Cl Inh and C3A levels have been determined. The concentration changes of complement (C) were not conditioned by the existence in serum HBs. The degree of changes in values of C in all patients is in determinate relation with the levels of bilirubin, transaminases and immunoglobulins (G, M, A). The degree of determinate changes of C depends on the severity of clinical picture. The degree of Cl Inh elevation is in correlation with intensity of complement activation. The noticed dissociated values of subcomplements Clq and Cls suggest the presence of immune complexes which could influence the HBsAg detection.