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Kazuhiro Abe

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ID8450650
NAMEKazuhiro Abe
GIVEN NAMESKazuhiro
FAMILY NAMEAbe
SIGNATUREABE K
AFFILIATIONSHokkaido University
ORCID0000-0003-2681-5921
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0
  • Does private equity acquisition impact the quality of care provided in US hospices

    Open Access•Yukiko Watanabe, Kazuhiro Abe et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2026

    BACKGROUND: The impact of private equity (PE) acquisition on the quality of care provided in hospices is unknown, despite the growing presence of PEs in the hospice sector. METHODS: Hospices acquired by PE during 2018-2020 were identified through mergers and acquisitions data. Difference-in-differences estimation was conducted to evaluate the impact of PE acquisition on Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey …

  • Primary Care Physician Characteristics and Low-Value Care Provision in Japan

    Open Access•Atsushi Miyawaki, John N Mafi et al.•ARTICLE•JAMA Health Forum•2025

    The findings of this cross-sectional analysis suggest that low-value care services were common and concentrated among a small number of primary care physicians in Japan, with older physicians and not board-certified physicians being more likely to provide low-value care. Policy interventions targeting at a small number of certain types of physicians providing large quantities of low-value care may be more effective and efficient than those target…

  • Effects of cost sharing on long-term care service utilization among home-dwelling older adults in Japan

    Open Access•Kazuaki Sano, Atsushi Miyawaki et al.•ARTICLE•Health Policy•2022

  • Deaths in Nursing Homes During the Covid-19 Pandemic—Lessons from Japan

    Open Access•Kazuhiro Abe, Ichiro Kawachi•ARTICLE•JAMA Health Forum•2021

    To date, 35% of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths in the United States have occurred among nursing home populations, compared with 14% in Japan. 1 How did Japan manage such a low proportion of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes? The similarity in case-fatality rates among patients with COVID-19 in nursing homes in the 2 countries (both approximately 16%) suggests that the infection rate in nursing homes in Japan was much lower than in the …

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  • Deaths in Nursing Homes During the Covid-19 Pandemic—Lessons from Japan

    Open Access•Kazuhiro Abe, Ichiro Kawachi•ARTICLE•JAMA Health Forum•2021

    To date, 35% of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths in the United States have occurred among nursing home populations, compared with 14% in Japan. 1 How did Japan manage such a low proportion of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes? The similarity in case-fatality rates among patients with COVID-19 in nursing homes in the 2 countries (both approximately 16%) suggests that the infection rate in nursing homes in Japan was much lower than in the …

  • Effects of cost sharing on long-term care service utilization among home-dwelling older adults in Japan

    Open Access•Kazuaki Sano, Atsushi Miyawaki et al.•ARTICLE•Health Policy•2022

  • Primary Care Physician Characteristics and Low-Value Care Provision in Japan

    Open Access•Atsushi Miyawaki, John N Mafi et al.•ARTICLE•JAMA Health Forum•2025

    The findings of this cross-sectional analysis suggest that low-value care services were common and concentrated among a small number of primary care physicians in Japan, with older physicians and not board-certified physicians being more likely to provide low-value care. Policy interventions targeting at a small number of certain types of physicians providing large quantities of low-value care may be more effective and efficient than those target…

  • Does private equity acquisition impact the quality of care provided in US hospices

    Open Access•Yukiko Watanabe, Kazuhiro Abe et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2026

    BACKGROUND: The impact of private equity (PE) acquisition on the quality of care provided in hospices is unknown, despite the growing presence of PEs in the hospice sector. METHODS: Hospices acquired by PE during 2018-2020 were identified through mergers and acquisitions data. Difference-in-differences estimation was conducted to evaluate the impact of PE acquisition on Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey …

Medicine (3 works) · Demography (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (2 works) · Long-term care (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 work)

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