Fig. 1

Probability of home deaths with use of each type of LTC services for home-dwelling recipients. The figure shows the adjusted probability of home death, estimated using marginal standardization (also known as predictive margins or margins of responses). Poisson regression with robust standard errors was applied, adjusting for the recipients’ age at the time of death, gender, presence of a spouse, underlying cause of death, year of death, degree of care needed, and the dummy variables of secondary medical areas. Error bars display the 95% confidence intervals. Even when we considered multiple comparisons using the Bonferroni method, the probability of home deaths for the eight categories was statistically significant for all the pairwise comparisons (28 pairs). The other service type was not used