- Project status
- Complete
- Contact
- Jenni Burton
- Host institution
- University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow
- Team members
- Professor Bruce Guthrie, University of Edinburgh & Dr Jenni Burton, University of Glasgow
- Funding information (if funded)
- Public Health Scotland (https://beta.isdscotland.org/)
- Project Summary
Identification and analysis of hospital discharges during March to May 2020 from NHS Scotland hospitals into care homes. Includes methodology, testing status and demographics of those discharged, then goes on to define and describe care home outbreaks with an analysis of the factors associated with those outbreaks.
- Outputs / Expected Outputs
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Academic publication (covering older adult homes only):
Jennifer Kirsty Burton, Megan McMinn, James E Vaughan, Jacques Fleuriot, Bruce Guthrie, Care-home outbreaks of COVID-19 in Scotland March to May 2020: National linked data cohort analysis, Age and Ageing, 2021;, afab099, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab099
- Project website
- https://beta.isdscotland.org/find-publications-and-data/population-health/covid-19/discharges-from-nhsscotland-hospitals-to-care-homes/
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Care setting
- Care homes/LTC facilities
- Funding type
- Public
- Impact/outcomes
- COVID-19 Infection rates | Deaths | Implementation outcomes
- Intervention types
- Modelling and data analysis to inform strategies | Preventing/controlling COVID-19 infections | Testing approaches
- Methods
- Secondary data analysis
- Groups/organisations
- People living in care homes