Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness
March 17, 2021
Nursing Home Characteristics Associated With Resident COVID-19 Morbidity in Communities With High Infection Rates
Category: Article Summary
Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting
Keywords (Tags): health care setting
- A study of residents of nursing homes (NHs) in communities with high SARS-CoV-2 infection rates found that NHs with more COVID-19 cases have residents who were older and had higher activities of daily living scores. Additionally, higher incidence NHs had a lower proportion of white residents and a higher proportion of residents who were insured by Medicaid. High incidence NHs had lower occupancy rates and fewer direct care hours per patient per day.
Chen et al. (Mar 16, 2021). Nursing Home Characteristics Associated With Resident COVID-19 Morbidity in Communities With High Infection Rates. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.1555