A Preliminary Analysis of Long-Term Care Litigation - Focusing on Civil Judgments.

The number of long-term care litigation cases has increased over the recent years due to an increasing number of people using long-term care services. This study adopted retrospective analysis and collected a total of 164 long-term care dispute litigation cases from 2002 to 2021, derived from the database of Judicial Yuan in Taiwan. Descriptive statistics was used to analysis data which includes numbers and percentage of each variable. Inferential analysis adopted Pearson's chi-squared test to compare whether two different classification variables are related. The results show that the ligation cases of home-based and communitybased services have been increasing since 2017; the largest number of defendants are the employers of long-term care institution (98.17%), followed by long-term care personnel and nurses. The win rate of care recipients is 33.54%. Residential institutions are often accused of malpractice. The number of comorbidities and the basis of right of claims are statistically significant with the percentage of wins in lawsuit. This study would offer suggestions that the long-term care institutions and personnel would gain a deeper understanding of the empirical situation of care disputes, so as to improve the safety of the care service and the quality of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]