Impact of home and community-based services on hospitalisation and institutionalisation among individuals eligible for long-term care insurance in Japan

Table 3 Descriptive statistics of outcome and expenditure variables (N = 565)

	mean	mediam	standard devation	maximum	minimum
Observation period (months)* ¹	19.5	13.2	20.1	94.9	0.03
Average monthly expenditures (yen)
Outpatient medical services	57,004	36,807	97,462	1,152,831	0
Total home and community-based services* ²	25,560	15,657	34,637	255,009	0
Home-visit type services* ³	8,002	0	23,682	210,097	0
Day-care type services* ⁴	12,041	0	17,780	127,506	0

*1 Time to hospitalisation, institutionalisation, death or censoring from the first certification of being eligible for long-term care insurance benefits.
*2 Consists of Home-help, Home-visit bathing, Visiting nurse, Management & guidance, Day care, Day rehabilitation, Respite care and Rental services for assistive devices.
*3 Consists of Home-help, Home-visit bathing, Visiting nurse and Management & guidance.
*4 Consists of Day care and Day rehabilitation.

ISSN: 1472-6963