Publications by authors named "A Osanai"
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- The study highlights the increasing importance of medical and nursing services in Japan due to an aging population, with a focus on the need for aseptic preparation services in community pharmacies.
- It found that only 8% of community pharmacies offer these services and identified significant regional disparities using Gini coefficients and geographic information systems.
- The conclusion emphasizes that the current distribution of pharmacies providing aseptic preparation is insufficient, and action is necessary to improve access as the population changes by 2050.
Home healthcare services provided by community pharmacists are essential for maintaining community care, especially in Japan's aging population. Personnel shortage in pharmacies is occasionally cited as the reason why pharmacies are unable to provide home healthcare services. This study examined the relationship between the number of pharmacists in each pharmacy and the provision of home healthcare services.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMigraine, a common primary headache disorder, is associated with various factors such as stress, hormones in women, fasting, weather, and sleep disturbance as well as odors. We aimed to categorize odors associated with migraine and explore their relationships with clinical characteristics. A total of 101 migraineurs answered a questionnaire to determine the odors associated with migraine attacks.
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- The study investigates the effects of the rising number of community pharmacists in Japan from 2008 to 2018 on their distribution relative to population and inhabitable land.
- Although the total number of community pharmacists increased by about 1.3 times, the distribution showed better equity per population but not per area of land.
- The findings highlight an imbalance, suggesting that while more pharmacists are available overall, they are not evenly distributed in relation to where people live, indicating a need for improved access to pharmacies in less populated areas.
Objective: In recent years, the incidence of vocal fold atrophy has increased among the elderly. Vocal function exercises (VFE) are performed in patients with age-related vocal fold atrophy; however, treatment could be challenging if the patient is unable to go to the hospital or in hospitals that do not have a speech pathologist. Breath-holding pulling exercises are simple and can be performed anywhere for the management of such patients.
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