Excess mortality for care home residents during the first 23 weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in England: a national cohort study

Project status

Complete

Contact

Marcello Morciano

Institution web page

https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/marcello.morciano.html

Host institution

The University of Manchester, UK

Team members

Jonathan Stokes, Alex J Turner, Sharvari Patwardhan, Ian Hall, Evangelos Kontopantelis

Funding information (if funded)

Part-funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration for Greater Manchester; the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR-2014-10043, grant ref no. 474); the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Systems and Commissioning (PRUComm, PR-PRU-1217-20801); (JS is additionally supported by an MRC Fellowship (MR/T027517/1)). IH is Principal Investigator of the NIHR Policy Research Programme in Operational Research for Emergency Response Analysis (OPERA, PR-R17-0916-21001).

Project Summary

We use nationally representative administrative data from all care homes in England to estimate overall excess deaths and by care home characteristics: setting type (nursing or residential home), client types (offering services for people aged 65+ and/or people with dementia or offering services to children and adults), ownership status (whether not-for-profit – charity/NHS/LA-run homes – or for-profit), whether known to be affiliated to a large provider/brand or independent, and classification according to their registered maximum bed capacity (small, medium and large).

Outputs / Expected Outputs

Journal article:

Morciano, M., Stokes, J., Kontopantelis, E. et al. Excess mortality for care home residents during the first 23 weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in England: a national cohort study. BMC Med 19, 71 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01945-2

Project website