Health Equity

Factors Associated With Racial Differences in Deaths Among Nursing Home Residents With COVID-19 Infection in the US

Abstract: This cross-sectional study uses data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to describe the racial differences in the number of COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents by the racial composition of the facility and to examine the factors associated with these differences.

Publication: JAMA

Date Published: February 10, 2021

Author(s): Rebecca J. Gorges, PhD and R. Tamara Konetzka, PhD

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