Changes in the place of death before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

• Masashi Shibata,

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

  Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Iizuka Hospital, Iizuka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9794-7783

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• Yuki Otsuka ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: otsuka@s.okayama-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6015-6128

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• Hideharu Hagiya,

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

  Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5086-1891

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• Toshihiro Koyama,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Biomedicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Hideyuki Kashiwagi,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Transitional and Palliative Care, Iizuka Hospital, Iizuka, Japan

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• Fumio Otsuka

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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