Continuing care and COVID-19: A Canadian tragedy that must not be allowed to happen again

CMAJ

Volumn 192, Issue 23, 2020, Pages E632-E633

  Holroyd Leduc, Jayna M ^a   Laupacis, Andreas ^b  

^a Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANADIAN; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; EDITORIAL; FRAILTY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY RATE; NONHUMAN; NURSING HOME; PATIENT MONITORING; QUALITY OF LIFE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY; BETACORONAVIRUS; CANADA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES; BETACORONAVIRUS; CANADA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; NURSING HOMES; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL;

EID: 85086645346     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.201017     Document Type: Editorial

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