Mortality among Care Home Residents in England during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study of 4.3 million adults over the age of 65

• Main Authors: Anna Schultze (Author), Emily Nightingale (Author), David Evans (Author), William Hulme (Author), Alicia Rosello (Author), Chris Bates (Author), Jonathan Cockburn (Author), Brian MacKenna (Author), Helen J Curtis (Author), Caroline E Morton (Author), Richard Croker (Author), Seb Bacon (Author), Helen I McDonald (Author), Christopher T Rentsch (Author), Krishnan Bhaskaran (Author), Rohini Mathur (Author), Laurie A Tomlinson (Author), Elizabeth J Williamson (Author), Harriet Forbes (Author), John Tazare (Author), Daniel Grint (Author), Alex J Walker (Author), Peter Inglesby (Author), Nicholas J DeVito (Author), Amir Mehrkar (Author), George Hickman (Author), Simon Davy (Author), Tom Ward (Author), Louis Fisher (Author), Amelia CA Green (Author), Kevin Wing (Author), Angel YS Wong (Author), Robert McManus (Author), John Parry (Author), Frank Hester (Author), Sam Harper (Author), Stephen JW Evans (Author), Ian J Douglas (Author), Liam Smeeth (Author), Rosalind M Eggo (Author), Ben Goldacre (Author), David A Leon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Residents in care homes have been severely impacted by COVID-19. We describe trends in the mortality risk among residents of care homes compared to private homes. Methods: On behalf of NHS England we used OpenSAFELY-TPP to calculate monthly age-standardised risks of death due to...