COVID-19 management in nursing homes by outbreak teams (MINUTES) - study description and data characteristics: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Nursing homes are hit relatively hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Dutch long-term care (LTC) organisations installed outbreak teams (OTs) to coordinate COVID-19 infection prevention and control. LTC organisations and relevant national policy organisations expressed the need to share experiences from these OTs that can be applied directly in COVID-19 policy. The aim of the 'COVID-19 management in nursing homes by outbreak teams' (MINUTES) study is to describe the challenges, responses and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Dutch nursing homes. In this first article, we describe the MINUTES Study and present data characteristics.

Design

This large-scale multicentre study has a qualitative design using manifest content analysis. The participating organisations shar

SUBMITTER: van Tol LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8634633 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature