Impact of home visiting nurses on home death proportion in Japan: A nationwide longitudinal ecological study
Shuhei Yoshida,
Yumi Hirahara,
Rieko Mutai
et al.
Abstract:ObjectiveHome visiting nurses contribute to end‐of‐life home care in an aging society. However, few previous studies reported patient outcomes based on nursing practices. This study aimed to examine the correlation between the number of them and the change in home death proportion.MethodsWe divided the number of home visiting nurses into four categories: absent, shortage, medium, and abundant. This study adopted the interaction term between the nurse categories and year as the major exposure variable, and home… Show more
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