Place of death associated with types of long-term care services near the end-of-life for home-dwelling older people in Japan: a pooled cross-sectional study

Table 3 Association between home deaths and use of LTC^a type for home-dwelling recipients^b (n = 2,035,657)

Type of LTC^c	Incident rate ratios	Robust SE^d	p-value	95% Confidential Interval
No use	Reference
In-home services	13.40	0.089	< 0.001	13.23	13.57
Day services	6.32	0.066	< 0.001	6.19	6.45
Short-stay services	1.25	0.045	< 0.001	1.16	1.34
In-home and day services	0.10	0.001	< 0.001	0.10	0.11
In-home and short-stay services	0.53	0.020	< 0.001	0.49	0.57
Day and short-stay services	0.72	0.030	< 0.001	0.67	0.78
In-home, day, and short-stay services	2.14	0.091	< 0.001	1.96	2.32

^aLong-term care
^bPoisson regression analysis, which was conducted to examine the association between the use of LTC service type for home-dwelling recipients and home death, adjusts for recipients’ age at time of death, gender, presence of spouse, underlying cause of death, year of death, degree of need for care, and secondary medical area dummy variables. Exponentiated coefficients were shown as incident rate ratios
^cThe types of LTC services were used by recipients at least once during/in the month of death. Another service type was not used
^dStandard errors

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