Changes in home visit utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multicenter cross-sectional web-based survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Home care is one of the essential community health care services; thus, identifying changes of home care utilization before and during the COVID-19 pandemic would be useful for researchers and policymaker to reconsider the home care system, the support needed for home care staff, and the collaborative system with hospitals in the COVID-19 era. We conducted a multicenter cross-sectional web-based anonymous survey of the directors of home visit facilities in Japan in August 2021.

Results

A total of 33 participants from 37 facilities responded to the survey. The number of patients dying at home and newly requested home visits increased during the COVID-19 pandemic (74.2%, 71.0%). One possible reason was the restricted visitation of inpatient facilities (93.5%). The un

SUBMITTER: Hamano J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9261221 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature