ArticleInternational journal of population data science2020
Hospital admissions from care homes in England during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis using linked administrative data.
Article in International journal of population data science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
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.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Usefulness of linked data for infectious disease events: a systematic review.Epidemiology and infection · 2023Pooled it
- Transitional Care Interventions for Older Residents of Long-term Care Facilities: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2022Pooled it
- Geriatric Telemanagement of Health Conditions (GET HEALTH) in Nursing Home Residents Recently Discharged From the Hospital: Protocol for a Before-After Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Variation in emergency department visits among residents of Swedish nursing homes between 2019 and 2020, a population-based cohort study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Impact of regular televisits on unplanned hospital admissions of nursing home residents in rural Germany: a pre-post intervention study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Dying in residential care homes during the early COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- End-of-Life Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Decreased Hospitalization of Nursing Home Residents at the End of Life.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Article
- Understanding health service utilisation patterns for care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic using routinely collected healthcare data.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Long term care facilities in England during the COVID-19 pandemic-a scoping review of guidelines, policy and recommendations.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Article
- Hospital admissions and deaths due to acute cardiovascular events during the COVID-19 pandemic in residents of long-term care facilities.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Indirect effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital mortality in patients with hip fracture: a competing risk survival analysis using linked administrative data.BMJ quality & safety · 2023Article
- Article
- General practitioner care in nursing homes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: a retrospective survey among nursing home managers.BMC primary care · 2022Article
- Understanding Pathways into Care homes using Data (UnPiCD study): a retrospective cohort study using national linked health and social care data.Age and ageing · 2022Article
- Managing the Impact of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Facilities: An Update.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022Article
- 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.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2022Article
- Identifying Care Home Residents in Electronic Health Records - An OpenSAFELY Short Data Report.Wellcome open research · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundCare home residents have complex healthcare needs but may have faced barriers to accessing hospital treatment during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
objectivesTo examine trends in the number of hospital admissions for care home residents during the first months of the COVID-19 outbreak.
methodsRetrospective analysis of a national linked dataset on hospital admissions for residential and nursing home residents in England (257,843 residents, 45% in nursing homes) between 20 January 2020 and 28 June 2020, compared to admissions during the corresponding period in 2019 (252,432 residents, 45% in nursing homes). Elective and emergency admission rates, normalised to the time spent in care homes across all residents, were derived across the first three months of the pandemic between 1 March and 31 May 2020 and primary admission reasons for this period were compared across years.
resultsHospital admission rates rapidly declined during early March 2020 and remained substantially lower than in 2019 until the end of June. Between March and May, 2,960 admissions from residential homes (16.2%) and 3,295 admissions from nursing homes (23.7%) were for suspected or confirmed COVID-19. Rates of other emergency admissions decreased by 36% for residential and by 38% for nursing home residents (13,191 fewer admissions in total). Emergency admissions for acute coronary syndromes fell by 43% and 29% (105 fewer admission) and emergency admissions for stroke fell by 17% and 25% (128 fewer admissions) for residential and nursing home residents, respectively. Elective admission rates declined by 64% for residential and by 61% for nursing home residents (3,762 fewer admissions).
conclusionsThis is the first study showing that care home residents' hospital use declined during the first wave of COVID-19, potentially resulting in substantial unmet health need that will need to be addressed alongside ongoing pressures from COVID-19.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.