Factors relating to place of death of Japanese people from a small town in a rural area

Planning and Providing End‐of‐life Care in Rural Areas

“…One study in a rural Japanese area found half of all deaths took place in hospital and half at home; the probability of home deaths was correlated with regular home visits from public health nurses. 25 Another study established that 93% of community nurses in Taiwan were willing to provide palliative care in rural communities despite their acknowledged educational gaps. 26 The care they currently provided was more often consultation and referral than home visiting or bereavement support.…”

Place of death in rural palliative care: A systematic review

“…Hand-searches, review of reference lists and monthly PubMed updates (including May 2015) added 16 additional articles. A total of 39 papers 10,13,29–65 were reviewed reporting 35 separate studies. One corresponding author supplied their full report 26 with data merged with their published paper.…”

“…26,31,62 Data were collected from at least 278,687 rural residents (sample size ranged from 8 47 to 199,211 38 ) from 21 countries (three studies did not provide rural participant number 32,57,59 ). Data were collected from Australia (7), 39,41,48,52,54,56,59 Canada (6), 13,36,40,42,51,63,64 England (4), 10,26,38,57,58,62 Germany (2), 35,49,55 Italy (2), 10,34 Scotland (2), 31,47 Taiwan (2), 45,60 Japan (2), 50,65 Spain (2) 33,46 and one from each of Belgium, 10,38 Botswana, 43,44 China, 37 Denmark, 29 Korea, 53 Mexico, 32 Norway, 10 the Netherlands, 10,38 New Zealand, 61 Sweden 30 and Wales. 10 One study 10,38 collected data from more than one country.…”

“…A total of 6 studies reported national data, 32,43–45,60,61,65 12 reported provincial, state or county data, 13,29,30,33,35,36,41,42,51,52,55,56,59,64 9 reported regional data, 26,34,39,46,48,49,57,58,63 7 reported a single town or health service/practice, 31,37,40,47,50,53,54 and 1 reported that data set was multi-regional. 10,38 Eight studies were described as rural or semi-rural, 26,31,47,48,50,57,58,61 one regional 39 and the remainder were cross-sectional containing rural data. One study reported data from non-cancer patients, 46 eight both malignant and non-malignant, 36,38,39,40,50,52,59,61 8 cross-sectional population data 35,42–…”

“…10,38 Eight studies were described as rural or semi-rural, 26,31,47,48,50,57,58,61 one regional 39 and the remainder were cross-sectional containing rural data. One study reported data from non-cancer patients, 46 eight both malignant and non-malignant, 36,38,39,40,50,52,59,61 8 cross-sectional population data 35,42–44,48,55,56,63–65 and the remainder reported data from terminally ill patients with cancer. In all, 31 studies were quantitative, 3 were qualitative 47,48,63 and 1 was mixed.…”