We reported earlier that the Ministry of Health distributed its final report (as well as a summary version) on its 2014 “Patient Survey Concerning the Activities of Daily Living Difficulty Levels of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients” to regional Bureaus of Health and Welfare on September 30, 2015.
The reports had been sent as a liaison office communication from the Ministry’s Health Service Bureau Specific Diseases Control Division and the Social Welfare Bureau Disability Welfare Policy Planning Division to the regional bureaus. The communication from the Ministry stated: “[t]his report is being distributed to assist in administration matters such as responding to requests for advice from CFS patients and patients with similar symptoms and in making disability certification determinations. Please provide the information to the physicians designated to issue disability certifications within your jurisdictional district.”
The report and summary report have now been published on the “Intractable Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Allergy, Kidney Disease, Chronic Pain-Related Information” page of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare website under the following title: “Report on Patient Survey Concerning the Activities of Daily Living Difficulty Levels of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients.”
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