Risk Factors Associated with Mortality among Residents with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Long-term Care Facilities in Ontario, Canada

JAMA Network Open

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2020, Pages

  Fisman, David N ^a   Bogoch, Isaac ^b,c   Lapointe Shaw, Lauren ^b,c   McCready, Janine ^d   Tuite, Ashleigh R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d TORONTO EAST GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY DWELLING PERSON; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY RATE; MORTALITY RISK; NURSING HOME PATIENT; ONTARIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; BETACORONAVIRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETACORONAVIRUS; COHORT STUDIES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; ONTARIO; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85088432226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25743805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.15957     Document Type: Article

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