24 January 2023>: Clinical Research
Effects of Caregiver’s Gender or Distance Between Caregiver and Patient’s Home on Home Discharge from Hospital in 285 Patients Aged ≥75 Years in Japan
Yoshimasa Oda 12ABCDEF* , Naoko E. Katsuki 1ABCDEF* , Masaki Tago 1ABDEFG* , Risa Hirata 1CDEF , Osamu Kojiro 3ABE , Masanori Nishiyama 2ADE , Masamichi Oda 3E , Shu-ichi Yamashita 1ADEDOI: 10.12659/MSM.939202
Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e939202
Figure 1 Data flowOf the 5 882 patients admitted to the hospital during the study period, 3 223 patients were aged ≥75 years. Among them, 312 consented to participate and responded to the questionnaire; 285 patients were available for analysis after excluding 27 patients for whom information was lacking about their place of residence for 30 days after discharge. This figure was created using Microsoft® PowerPoint® for Microsoft 365 MSO (version 2208 build 16.0.15601.20148).