Nontraditional Small House Nursing Homes Have Fewer COVID-19 Cases and Deaths

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2021, Pages 489-493

  Zimmerman, Sheryl ^a,b   Dumond Stryker, Carol ^c   Tandan, Meera ^a   Preisser, John S ^b   Wretman, Christopher J ^a   Howell, Abigail ^c   Ryan, Susan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c The Green House Project   (United States)

Author keywords

COVID 19; nursing homes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY RATE; NURSING COMPETENCE; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; SMALL HOUSE NURSING HOME; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COVID-19; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, UNDER 100; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ADMISSION; SARS-COV-2; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85101358977     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2021.01.069     Document Type: Article

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