Title |
Determinants of financial performance of home-visit nursing agencies in Japan
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, January 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-14-11 |
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Authors |
Sakiko Fukui, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Junko Fujita, Sumie Ikezaki |
Abstract |
Japan has the highest aging population in the world and promotion of home health services is an urgent policy issue. As home-visit nursing plays a major role in home health services, the Japanese government began promotion of this activity in 1994. However, the scale of home-visit nursing agencies has remained small (the average numbers of nursing staff and other staff were 4.2 and 1.7, respectively, in 2011) and financial performance (profitability) is a concern in such small agencies. Additionally, the factors related to profitability in home-visit nursing agencies in Japan have not been examined multilaterally and in detail. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to examine the determinants of financial performance of home-visit nursing agencies. |
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