Study Results from Iwate Medical University in the Area of Health and Medicine Published (A cross-sectional survey of consistent rehabilitation through long-term care insurance in Japan: a questionnaire survey): Health and Medicine

2024 MAR 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Hospital & Nursing Home Daily -- Fresh data on agriculture are presented in a new report. According to news originating from Iwate Medical University by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “There seems to be a lack of consistency of maintenance/community-based rehabilitation through long-term care insurance. We aimed to clarify whether consistent rehabilitation can be performed through long-term care insurance by questionnaires.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Iwate Medical University: “This study was a cross-sectional study in a nationwide survey among rehabilitation staff and care recipients who completed disease-specific rehabilitation and required maintenance/community-based rehabilitation through long-term care insurance. Consistency of rehabilitation was compared using Fisher’s exact tests. The concordance of the rehabilitation evaluation and treatment conducted under medical and long-term care insurance was assessed using the k coefficient. Six hundred questionnaires from care recipients and staff were analyzed. Of the rehabilitation staff, 264 (44%) obtained rehabilitation plans from medical institutions. There was a significant difference between the responses of “referral from the same medical corporation” and “obtaining the rehabilitation plan” by Fisher’s exact test (odds ratio: 3.242; P<0.001). Most rehabilitation treatments under medical insurance comprised walking or training with parallel rods/canes [498 patients (83%)], and 454 patients (76%) received stretching and range-of-motion training for the limbs and spine for long-term care insurance. Muscle strength evaluation was the most frequently conducted under medical and long-term care insurance [383 (73%) and 487 (83%), respectively]. The concordance of the evaluation and treatment content, except for disease-specific evaluation, was low (k coefficient 0.6).”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The rate of provision of rehabilitation plans was low, and evaluation and treatment content under medical and long-term care insurance was inconsistent. Our results draw attention to the need for consistent rehabilitation plans between disease-specific and maintenance/community-based rehabilitation.”

For more information on this research see: A cross-sectional survey of consistent rehabilitation through long-term care insurance in Japan: a questionnaire survey. Annals of Medicine & Surgery, 2023,85(1). The publisher for Annals of Medicine & Surgery is Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health).

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1097/ms9.0000000000000199.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Yukihide Nishimura, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Shiwa-gun, Iwate Prefecture. Additional authors for this research include Makoto Asaeda, Yukio Mikami, Toshio Shimokawa, Hiroshi Shinohara, Takashi Kawasaki, Ken Kouda, Takahiro Ogawa, Hiroyuki Okawa, Hiroyasu Uenishi, Rumi Kuroda, Yasuo Mikami, Fumihiro Tajima, Toshikazu Kubo.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the authors of this research: Makoto Asaeda (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9323-8146), Takashi Kawasaki (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0193-3040), Ken Kouda (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9050-0460), Takahiro Ogawa (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-5649), Rumi Kuroda (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4946-0019), Yasuo Mikami (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0114-3276).

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