Association of Nursing Home Ratings on Health Inspections, Quality of Care, and Nurse Staffing With COVID-19 Cases

JAMA. 2020 Sep 15;324(11):1103-1105. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.14709.

Authors

Jose F Figueroa¹, Rishi K Wadhera², Irene Papanicolas³, Kristen Riley¹, Jie Zheng¹, E John Orav¹, Ashish K Jha¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Social and Health Policy, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom.

Abstract

This study evaluates COVID-19 case rates between high- and low-performing nursing homes based on CMS quality measures.

MeSH terms

COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Humans
Nursing Homes / organization & administration
Nursing Homes / standards*
Nursing Staff / supply & distribution*
Pandemics
Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Public Health Surveillance
Quality of Health Care*
United States / epidemiology
Workforce*