Trajectories of medical care expenditure in the last year of life associated with long-term care utilization in frail older adults: A retrospective cohort study

• Noriko Yoshiyuki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Noriko Yoshiyuki, Takuma Ishihara

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community-based Integrated Care science, School of Nursing, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan

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• Takuma Ishihara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Noriko Yoshiyuki, Takuma Ishihara

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

  Affiliation Innovative and Clinical Research Promotion Center, Gifu University Hospital, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

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• Ayumi Kono ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ayukono@omu.ac.jp

  Affiliation Long-term Care Insurance Division, Department of Health and Welfare, Izumi City Municipal, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8277-7141

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• Naomi Fukushima ,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ NF, TM and KK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Community-based Integrated Care science, School of Nursing, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan, Long-term Care Insurance Division, Department of Health and Welfare, Izumi City Municipal, Osaka, Japan

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• Takeshi Miura ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ NF, TM and KK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Community-based Integrated Care science, School of Nursing, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan

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• Katsunori Kaneko

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ NF, TM and KK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Economics, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan

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