COVID-19 risk factors amongst 14,786 care home residents: an observational longitudinal analysis including daily community positive test rates of COVID-19, hospital stays and vaccination status in Wales (UK) between 1 September 2020 and 1 May 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 vaccinations have been prioritised for high risk individuals.

Aim

Determine individual-level risk factors for care home residents testing positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Study design

Longitudinal observational cohort study using individual-level linked data from the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) databank.

Setting

Fourteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-six older care home residents (aged 65+) living in Wales between 1 September 2020 and 1 May 2021. Our dataset consisted of 2,613,341 individual-level daily observations within 697 care homes.

Methods

We estimated odds ratios (ORs [95% confidence interval]) using multilevel logistic regression models. Our outcome of interest was a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test. We included time

SUBMITTER: Hollinghurst J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9070807 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature