Nurses' professional views of medical care for dialysis patients in Japan: future directions for nursing care.

Nakahara, Noriko; Morita, Natsumi; Uchida, Masaatsu K.

doi:10.4009/jsdt.36.1215

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“…Since then, all medical expenses have been fully covered without any out-ofpocket expenses, and dialysis patients have various preferential treatments including payment of pensions, tax reductions and discounts in transportation expenses. Opinions have been voiced that the current special treatment for dialysis patients may be too excessive (6).…”

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Nursing Care for Dialysis Patients in Japan

Nakahara¹,

Morita

Uchida

et al. 2004

EDTNA-ERCA Journal

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In Japan, the number of chronic renal failure patients requiring dialysis treatment is increasing by approximately 10,000 patients a year, totalling 229,538 or 1,801.2 patients per one million population at the end of December, 2002 according to the survey conducted by the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy. The primary disease is diabetic nephropathy (28.1% of patients), and with greater numbers of long-term and elderly patients, the incidence and severity of complications continue to increase. Dialysis units provide more diversified care, but budget cuts in health care make it difficult to secure sufficient personnel, and the workload on nurses has intensified. In this study, a survey of 157 out of 300 randomly selected dialysis facilities in Japan was made regarding nursing systems and nurses' concerns for medical care of dialysis patients.

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