The nursing home versus the hospital as the place of dying for nursing home residents in Japan

Health Policy

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 280-288

  Takezako, Yayoi ^a,b   Tamiya, Nanako ^b   Kajii, Eiji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Death; Long term care; Nursing homes; Preference; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DYING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NURSING HOMES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINALLY ILL; TOKYO;

EID: 33947223019     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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