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Japan's policy of promoting end-of-life care in nursing homes: Impact on facility and resident characteristics associated with the site of death

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  • Ikegami, Naoki
  • Ikezaki, Sumie

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To evaluate the impact of the policy to encourage nursing homes to provide end-of-life care by comparing facility and resident variables associated with dying within the nursing home and not in hospitals, and by comparing life sustaining treatment (LST) respectively provided.

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  • Ikegami, Naoki & Ikezaki, Sumie, 2012. "Japan's policy of promoting end-of-life care in nursing homes: Impact on facility and resident characteristics associated with the site of death," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 105(2), pages 303-311.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:hepoli:v:105:y:2012:i:2:p:303-311
    DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.01.009
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    1. Takezako, Yayoi & Tamiya, Nanako & Kajii, Eiji, 2007. "The nursing home versus the hospital as the place of dying for nursing home residents in Japan," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(2-3), pages 280-288, May.
    2. Long, Susan Orpett, 2004. "Cultural scripts for a good death in Japan and the United States: similarities and differences," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 58(5), pages 913-928, March.
    3. Ikegami, Naoki & Ikezaki, Sumie, 2010. "Life sustaining treatment at end-of-life in Japan: Do the perspectives of the general public reflect those of the bereaved of patients who had died in hospitals?," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 98(2-3), pages 98-106, December.
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