In consideration of the healthcare situation, we need
more appropriate healthcare policies for improved homevisit
nursing services that adequately reflect the characteristics
and the regional needs of each agency [6]. We thus
need to better understand the characteristics of these
agencies as well their patients they serve. In this study, we
aimed to develop a new method to categorize home-visit
nursing agencies throughout Japan based on the actual
services delivered for application to revisions to healthcare
policies in Japan.