New Stroke Study Findings Recently Were Published by Researchers at Jikei University School of Medicine (Transitional and Long-Term Care System in Japan and Current Challenges for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation): Cerebrovascular Diseases and Conditions – Stroke

2022 JAN 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Hospital & Nursing Home Daily -- New research on stroke is the subject of a new report. According to news reporting from Tokyo, Japan, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “In Japan, the national medical insurance system and long-term care insurance (LTCI) system cover rehabilitation therapy for patients with acute, convalescent, and chronic stroke. Medical insurance covers early and multidisciplinary rehabilitation therapy during acute phase hospitalizations.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Jikei University School of Medicine: “Patients requiring assistance in their activities of daily living (ADL) after hospitalization are transferred to kaifukuki (convalescent) rehabilitation wards (KRW), which the medical insurance system has also covered. In these wards, patients can receive intensive and multidisciplinary rehabilitation therapy to improve their ADL and transition to a smooth home discharge. After discharge from these hospitals, elderly patients with stroke can receive outpatient (day-care) rehabilitation and home-based rehabilitation using the LTCI system. The Japanese government has proposed building a community-based integrated care system by 2025 to provide comprehensive medical services, long-term care, preventive care, housing, and livelihood support for patients. This policy aims to promote smooth coordination between medical insurance services and LTCI providers. Accordingly, the medical insurance system allows hospitals to receive additional fees by providing patient information to rehabilitation service providers in the LTCI system.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “A comprehensive database on acute, convalescent, and chronic phase stroke patients and seamless cooperation between the medical care system and LTCI system is expected to be established in the future. There are only 2,613 board-certified physiatrists in Japan, and many medical schools lack a department for rehabilitation medicine; establishing such a department at each school is encouraged to teach students efficient medical care procedures, to conduct research, and to facilitate the training of personnel in comprehensive stroke rehabilitation.”

For more information on this research see: Transitional and Long-Term Care System in Japan and Current Challenges for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation. Frontiers in Neurology, 2022,12. (Frontiers in Neurology - http://frontiersin.org/neurology). The publisher for Frontiers in Neurology is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.711470.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Shoji Kinoshita, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Additional authors for this research include Masahiro Abo, Takatsugu Okamoto, Kohei Miyamura.

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