Aging of hospital physicians in rural Japan: A longitudinal study based on national census data

• Masatoshi Matsumoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masatoshi Matsumoto, Kazuki Kimura

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: matmo10@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Community-Based Medical System, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8341-9303

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• Kazuki Kimura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masatoshi Matsumoto, Kazuki Kimura

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community-Based Medical System, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Kazuo Inoue,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Chiba Medical Center, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

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• Saori Kashima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Health Policy, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Soichi Koike,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Health Policy and Management, Center for Community Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

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• Susumu Tazuma

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

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