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Table 5 Pull factors and service interactions

From: Relationship of place of death with care capacity and accessibility: a multilevel population study of system effects on place of death in Norway

 

Service interactions

Pull factors towards home death

 

 - Relative size of home care budget

Reduce the relative risk of nursing home versus hospital death

Pull factors towards hospital death

 

 - Nearness to local hospital

 

 - Distance to hospital with additional functions

Reduce the relative risk of nursing home versus home death

 - Hospital beds

Reduce the relative risk of nursing home versus home death

Pull factors towards nursing home death

 

 - Nursing home beds

Reduce the relative risk of home versus hospital death

 - Nurses in LTC

Reduce the relative risk of hospital versus home death

  1. LTC long-term care