Abstract
The purpose of this study was to establish an evaluation scale for stoma management．
We retrospectively reviewed 120 patients with an ostomy in terms of the quality of stoma management．Patients were classified into three categories（A to C）according to the duration of time during which the faceplate could be used with no leakage of the evacuated material．Each category group was further divided into two or three subgroups．We assessed correlations between the assigned classification and seven risk factors related to the quality of stoma management． Strong correlations were found，suggesting that this classification system could be useful in evaluating stoma management.
