Factors Associated with Racial Differences in Deaths among Nursing Home Residents with COVID-19 Infection in the US

JAMA Network Open

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2021, Pages

  Gorges, Rebecca J ^a,b   Konetzka, R Tamara ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HOME FOR THE AGED; INFECTION CONTROL; MORTALITY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; COVID-19; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; RACE FACTORS; SARS-COV-2; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85101462826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25743805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.37431     Document Type: Article

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