Changes in Health and Quality of Life in US Skilled Nursing Facilities by COVID-19 Exposure Status in 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the US federal government required that skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) close to visitors and eliminate communal activities. Although these policies were intended to protect residents, they may have had unintended negative effects.

Objective

To assess health outcomes among SNFs with and without known COVID-19 cases.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective observational study used US Medicare claims and Minimum Data Set 3.0 for January through November in each year beginning in 2018 and ending in 2020 including 15 477 US SNFs with 2 985 864 resident-years.

Exposures

January through November of calendar years 2018, 2019, and 2020. COVID-19 diagnoses were used to assign SNFs into 2 mutually exclusive groups w

SUBMITTER: Barnett ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9425288 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature