Through the survey of 339 geriatric hospitals which adopt the Partial Capitation Payment System, we found that the the major part of patient care was carried by careworkers and range or degree of careworkers’ jobs were different between hospitals. Also, through the multiple regression analysis, we analyzed how the careworkers’ jobs are affected by the various characteristics of hospital management.
From these results, some factors of the hospital management and of the careers or the qualifications of the careworker groups showed significant correlations with the condition of careworkers’ jobs.
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