[Inspection data required for specific health checkups].
Since 2008, specific health checkups and health care advice have been performed as part of medical system reforms. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare translated "Tokutei kenko shinsa/tokutei hoken shido" as "Health checkups and health care advice with a particular focus on the detection of diabetes for all those insured over the age of 40". Therefore, specific health checkups and health care advice can be considered to aim at preventing diabetes mellitus due to a rapid increase in the number of patients with this disease and high-risk persons. After the introduction of this system, measurement values and evaluation criteria common to medical institutions providing these checkups and health care advice became necessary. Therefore, the standardization of clinical examination values as a longstanding problem in the clinical laboratory was initiated from the health checkup section, which underwent various reforms associated with specific health checkups.
Shizuoka Medical Service Center MEDIO, Shizuoka 420-0859, Japan. k-tauchi@medio.or.jp
Kazutami
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Tauchi
D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000592:standards*