The Present Situation of Home Medical Care and its Contents / 日本農村医学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

The aim of this investigation was to outline the present situation concerning home medical care and its contents in Japan, excluding general medication.<BR>We examined answers to questionnaires about care contents published in a book that nationally involved doctors who were providing medical care in the patient's home. More than 80 percent of the doctors who responded to the survey gave treatment with intravenous drip-infusions, bladder/urine catheters, injections or tube feeding. Treatment of intravenous hyperalimentation or rehabilitation was also applied by many doctors. General practitioners tended to treat their patients with continuous infusions, injections or home oxygen masks more frequently than hospital doctors. There was no marked difference between generations of doctors in the performance of various care services. We described in part the situation of home medical care and its contents and the performance of some care services might be influenced by providers-hospital or clinic-based doctors.