[End-of-life care in a special elderly nursing home characteristics of patients who died in nursing home facilities and current status of end-of-life decision-making].

Aim: We investigated the characteristics of people who died in a special elderly nursing home and the current status of end-of-life decision-making.

Methods: Subjects comprised 168 residents who were discharged from a special elderly nurshing home in Yokohama between April 1998 and June 2008. A total of 3 patients were excluded from this study due to insufficient inclusion criteria.