TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of a Japanese Incentivization Program to Increase End-of-Life Care Outside of Hospitals
AU - Sato, Mikiya
AU - Tamiya, Nanako
AU - Jin, Xueying
AU - Watanabe, Taeko
AU - Takahashi, Hideto
AU - Noguchi, Haruko
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development , Japan (grant numbers JP18dk0110026 ). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - Objectives: To analyze the association of an incentivization program to promote death outside of hospitals with changes in place of death. Design: A longitudinal observational study using national databases. Setting and Participants: Participants comprised Japanese decedents (≥65 years) who had used long-term care insurance services and died between April 2007 and March 2014. Methods: Using a database of Japanese long-term care insurance service claims, subjects were divided into community-dwelling and residential aged care (RAC) facility groups. Based on national death records, change in place of death after the Japanese government initiated incentivization program was observed using logistic regression. Results: Hospital deaths decreased by 8.7% over time, mainly due to an increase in RAC facility deaths. The incentivization program was more associated with decreased in-hospital deaths for older adults in RAC facilities than community-dwelling older adults. Conclusions and Implications: In Japan, the proportion of in-hospital deaths of frail older adults decreased since the health services system introduced the incentivization program for end-of-life care outside of hospitals. The shift of place of death from hospitals to different locations was more prominent among residents of RAC facilities, where informal care from laymen was required less, than among community residents.
AB - Objectives: To analyze the association of an incentivization program to promote death outside of hospitals with changes in place of death. Design: A longitudinal observational study using national databases. Setting and Participants: Participants comprised Japanese decedents (≥65 years) who had used long-term care insurance services and died between April 2007 and March 2014. Methods: Using a database of Japanese long-term care insurance service claims, subjects were divided into community-dwelling and residential aged care (RAC) facility groups. Based on national death records, change in place of death after the Japanese government initiated incentivization program was observed using logistic regression. Results: Hospital deaths decreased by 8.7% over time, mainly due to an increase in RAC facility deaths. The incentivization program was more associated with decreased in-hospital deaths for older adults in RAC facilities than community-dwelling older adults. Conclusions and Implications: In Japan, the proportion of in-hospital deaths of frail older adults decreased since the health services system introduced the incentivization program for end-of-life care outside of hospitals. The shift of place of death from hospitals to different locations was more prominent among residents of RAC facilities, where informal care from laymen was required less, than among community residents.
KW - Long-term care insurance
KW - home- and community-based care
KW - in-hospital death
KW - informal care
KW - place of death
KW - residential aged care
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.09.021
DO - 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.09.021
M3 - Article
C2 - 33160874
AN - SCOPUS:85095764275
SN - 1525-8610
VL - 22
SP - 329
EP - 333
JO - Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
JF - Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
IS - 2
ER -
