| Project status | Ongoing |
|---|---|
| Contact | Sarah Berry, Vincent Mor |
| Institution web page | https://impactcollaboratory.org/improved-testing-for-covid-19-in-skilled-nursing-facilities-impact-c/ |
| Host institution | IMPACT Collaboratory Brown University School of Public Health, Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife |
| Team members | Sarah Berry (Co-PI, Hebrew SeniorLife), Vincent Mor (Co-PI, Brown University School of Public Health), David Gifford (American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living), Jill Harrison (Brown University School of Public Health), Michael Mina (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Douglas Fridsma (Inicio Health), Ed Davidson, (Insight Therapeutics), Stefan Gravenstein (Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School), Jonathan Jackson (Massachusetts General Hospital), Kimberly Johnson (Duke University School of Medicine), Rosa Baier (Brown University School of Public Health), Ana Montoya (University of Michigan Medical School), David Grabowski (Harvard Medical School), Cyrus Kosar (Brown University School of Public Health), Keith Goldfeld (New York University School of Medicine), Jasmine Travers (New York University School of Nursing), Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez (Brown University School of Public Health), Shekinah Fashaw (Brown University School of Public Health), Jeff Hiris (Brown University School of Public Health), Susan Mitchell (Hebrew SeniorLife), Elizabeth White (Brown University School of Public Health) |
| Funding information (if funded) | National Institute on Aging, IMPACT Collaboratory supplement, 3U54AG063546-02S2 |
| Project Summary | Our goal is to leverage the foundation of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory to establish IMPACT-COVID-19 (IMPACT-C), which will be dedicated to developing and evaluating SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies among highly vulnerable skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents and workers. The organizational, administrative, and expertise components for IMPACT-C will include: leadership, regulatory structures, dissemination, and investigators. We will leverage IMPACT Collaboratory’s Data Sharing Collaborative that includes 11 national companies with >1,000 SNFs. We have established the infrastructure to securely and regularly receive daily EMR and COVID-19 data from this consortium and link it to Medicare claims and Minimum Data Set assessments. Using this rich and representative database, we will conduct a series of models to inform policies on SARS-CoV-2 testing and to forecast outbreaks. We have additionally designed a cluster RCT of 120-150 facilities to compare the effect of novel, point-of-care testing versus usual care on the rate of COVID-19 infections. Data will be shared with the RADx-UP Coordination and Data Collection Center. |
| Outputs / Expected Outputs | Starting early 2021 |
| Project website | https://impactcollaboratory.org/improved-testing-for-covid-19-in-skilled-nursing-facilities-impact-c/ |
KEYWORDS / CATEGORIES | |
| Countries | United States |
| 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 | Surveys | Trials and other evaluations |
| Groups/organisations | Care provider/care organisations | People living in care homes |