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Therefore, in the present study, we investigated actual state of pure \u201cattended deaths at home,\u201d in order to provide reference data for the future development of end-of-life care at home.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>We performed a detailed survey in Yokohama City according to the type of death, age, and underlying cause of death in cases of home deaths, based on the detailed version of the Vital Statistics Survey Death Forms. Then, we divided deaths occurring in each municipality in Kanagawa Prefecture into two categories: \u201cexamined deaths\u201d or \u201cattended deaths,\u201d which were also stratified by the place of death, based on the Vital Statistics, and data on number of death cases subjected to postmortem examination from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Headquarters.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>In 2013, the survey in Yokohama City showed large differences in age distribution and cause of death between examined and attended deaths. In 2014, home deaths accounted for 15.7% of all deaths in the prefecture, whereas the overall proportion of attended deaths at home was 6.9%.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>We should utilize the rate of pure \u201cattended deaths at home\u201d for objective outcome indicator.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12199-019-0838-0","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,17]],"date-time":"2019-12-17T20:03:56Z","timestamp":1576613036000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["The importance of the rate of pure \u201cattended deaths at home\u201d for objective outcome indicator for assessing the prevalence of home care in Japan"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3078-2897","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yasuhiro","family":"Kakiuchi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ryoko","family":"Nagao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Eriko","family":"Ochiai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Kakimoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Motoki","family":"Osawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"838_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"357","DOI":"10.1200\/JCO.2014.55.7355","volume":"33","author":"H Kinoshita","year":"2015","unstructured":"Kinoshita H, Maeda I, Morita T, et al. 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