Yoshioka S Author

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Review on the Elements Related to the Development of End of Life Care Quality Evaluation Index that Enriches the Final Years of the Elderly

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Matsumoto K, Masaki H, Kawai N, Kuwata M, Yoshioka S, Nishiyama M, Sakai S, Endo K, Uchino R, Hayashi Y, Teshima M and Nagae H

Purpose: A detailed literature review was conducted with the goal of extracting quality indicators that could function as the underlying data for developing a quality index for end-of-life care that would create more enriched final years for the elderly in Japan.

Method: Literature review

Results: Literature searched elderly people, terminal care, relief, the measure, the nature index, and the guideline in the keyword. We decided to make 34 pieces of literature which met all the adoption standards in 507 extracted pieces applicable to analysis. The index factors extracted used the categorization by subject (disease) conditions as their... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2573-4571.1000118

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