COVID-19 infection and attributable mortality in UK care homes: cohort study using active surveillance and electronic records (March–June 2020)
Author(s) -
Peter DuteyMagni,
Haydn Williams,
Arnoupe Jhass,
Greta Rait,
Fabiana Lorencatto,
Harry Hemingway,
Andrew Hayward,
Laura Shallcross
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afab060
Subject(s) - medicine , case fatality rate , incidence (geometry) , outbreak , epidemiology , hazard ratio , confidence interval , cohort , cohort study , infection control , pandemic , pneumonia , emergency medicine , demography , covid-19 , surgery , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , disease , physics , sociology , optics
epidemiological data on COVID-19 infection in care homes are scarce. We analysed data from a large provider of long-term care for older people to investigate infection and mortality during the first wave of the pandemic.
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