Abstract
Follow-up ostomy services for 175 outpatients in Japan were investigated by questionnaires and some published materials.
1）Many outpatient clinics have been estabilshed in big cities.
2）A lot of clinics are managed by large national or public hospitals.
3）Most stoma cilnics are conducted one to four times monthly.
4）In many clinics,ostomates are treated and educated not only by doctors but also by nurses.
5）In many cases,ostomates with stomas of the gastointestinal tract as well as those with stomas of the urinary tract are examined in the same cilnic.
6）Adolescent and geriatric ostomates and pediatric patients are also given instructions in identical clinics.
7）Ostomates have post-hospital follow-up exams at stoma clinics in other hospitals.
