Open AccessRisk Factors Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Hospitalization, and Mortality Among US Nursing Home Residents
Author(s) -
Hemalkumar B. Mehta,
Shuang Li,
James S. Goodwin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jama network open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.278
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 2574-3805
DOI - 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.6315
Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , incidence (geometry) , nursing homes , logistic regression , hazard ratio , retrospective cohort study , demography , cohort , covid-19 , emergency medicine , gerontology , confidence interval , disease , nursing , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , sociology , optics
Key Points Question What risk factors are associated with SARS-CoV-2 infections, hospitalization, and mortality among nursing home residents? Findings In this cohort study among 482 323 long-stay residents, risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections were associated with geographic area and the specific facility, not by characteristics of the residents. Among residents diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infections, the risk of hospitalization associated with individual resident characteristics differed from the risk of death. Meaning These findings suggest that decisions on hospitalization of nursing home residents with SARS-CoV-2 were inconsistently associated with risk of death.
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