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We explore the effect of nursing home status on healthcare outcomes such ashospitalisation, mortality and in-hospital mortality during the COVID-19pandemic. Some claim that in specific Autonomous Communities (geopoliticaldivisions) in Spain, elderly people in nursing homes had restrictions on accessto hospitals and treatments, which raised a public outcry about the fairness ofsuch measures. In this work, the case of the Basque Country is studied under arigorous statistical approach and a physician's perspective. Asfairness/unfairness is hard to model mathematically and has strong real-worldimplications, this work concentrates on the following simplification:establishing if the nursing home status had a direct effect on healthcareoutcomes once accounted for other meaningful patients' information such as age,health status and period of the pandemic, among others. The methods followedhere are a combination of established techniques as well as new proposals fromthe fields of causality and fair learning. The current analysis suggests thatas a group, people in nursing homes were significantly less likely to behospitalised, and considerably more likely to die, even in hospitals, comparedto their non-residents counterparts during most of the pandemic. Further datacollection and analysis are needed to guarantee that this is solely/mainly dueto nursing home status.

A study on group fairness in healthcare outcomes for nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Basque Country