The Revised Medical Care Act is associated with a decrease in hospital death for the total Japanese older adult population regardless of dementia status: An interrupted time series analysis

• Joost D. Wammes ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: j.d.wammes@amsterdamumc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3260-2199

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• Miharu Nakanishi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Miyagi, Japan

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• Jenny T. van der Steen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Janet L. MacNeil Vroomen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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