To evaluate the impact of the policy to encourage nursing homes to provide end-of-life care by comparing facility and resident variables associated with dying within the nursing home and not in hospitals, and by comparing life sustaining treatment (LST) respectively provided.

Objective To compare the perspectives of the general public and of the bereaved of patients who had died in hospitals on life sustaining treatment (LST).Method Two self-administered questionnaire surveys were conducted in a city in Japan. The general public survey was mailed to a stratified...