Effectiveness of home care for fever treatment in older people: A case-control study compared with hospitalized care.

Aim: To examine whether the outcomes of fever treatment through home care differ from those through hospitalized care for older people who regularly receive home care in Japan.

Methods: A retrospective survey of medical record-based data for 679 older people who regularly received home care provided by a clinic in Japan. From these data, 61 fever cases (21 cases treated in the hospital and 40 treated at home and assigned to the hospitalized and home-care groups, respectively) were selected for analysis through a matching process.