For-profit long-term care homes and the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks and resident deaths

CMAJ

Volumn 192, Issue 33, 2020, Pages E946-E955

  Stall, Nathan M ^a,b,c,d   Jones, Aaron ^e   Brown, Kevin A ^b   Rochon, Paula A ^b,c,d   Costa, Andrew P ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; ONTARIO; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRINAE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PANDEMIC; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; NURSING HOMES; ONTARIO; OWNERSHIP; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85089787031     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.201197     Document Type: Article

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