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ReviewBioMed research international2020

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Long-Term Care Facilities Worldwide: An Overview on International Issues.

Dana-Claudia Thompson, Madalina-Gabriela Barbu, Cristina Beiu, Liliana Gabriela Popa, Mara Madalina Mihai, Mihai Berteanu, Marius Nicolae Popescu

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Review in BioMed research international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

114 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nursing Homes: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  12. [Recommendations on prevention and treatment of respiratory infections in institutionalised older people].Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Dana-Claudia ThompsonFetal Medicine Excellence Research Center, Alessandrescu-Rusescu National Institute for Mother and Child Health, 365 Calea Grivitei street, 010717 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9961-0719
Madalina-Gabriela BarbuFetal Medicine Excellence Research Center, Alessandrescu-Rusescu National Institute for Mother and Child Health, 365 Calea Grivitei street, 010717 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3469-2020
Cristina BeiuDepartment of Dermatology, Elias University Emergency Hospital, 17 Marasti Blvd., 011461 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4632-576X
Liliana Gabriela PopaDepartment of Dermatology, Elias University Emergency Hospital, 17 Marasti Blvd., 011461 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1702-7280
Mara Madalina MihaiDepartment of Dermatology, Elias University Emergency Hospital, 17 Marasti Blvd., 011461 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1436-0088
Mihai BerteanuDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Elias University Emergency Hospital, 17 Marasti Blvd., 011461 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9379-4580
Marius Nicolae PopescuDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Elias University Emergency Hospital, 17 Marasti Blvd., 011461 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9043-7585

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic had a great negative impact on nursing homes, with massive outbreaks being reported in care facilities all over the world, affecting not only the residents but also the care workers and visitors. Due to their advanced age and numerous underlying diseases, the inhabitants of long-term care facilities represent a vulnerable population that should benefit from additional protective measures against contamination. Recently, multiple countries such as France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, and the United States of America reported that an important fraction from the total number of deaths due to the SARS-CoV-2 infection emerged from nursing homes. The scope of this paper was to present the latest data regarding the COVID-19 spread in care homes worldwide, identifying causes and possible solutions that would limit the outbreaks in this overlooked category of population. It is the authors' hope that raising awareness on this matter would encourage more studies to be conducted, considering the fact that there is little information available on the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on nursing homes. Establishing national databases that would register all nursing home residents and their health status would be of great help in the future not only for managing the ongoing pandemic but also for assessing the level of care that is needed in this particularly fragile setting.

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BelgiumCanadaCOVID-19FranceHealth PersonnelHumansLong-Term CareNursing HomesRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2SpainUnited States

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PMCPMC7656236

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