Nursing Home

An intervention researchers hoped would improve infection management did not significantly reduce antimicrobial use among nursing home residents with dementia, data showed.

Nearly one-third of nursing home residents with atrial fibrillation and advanced dementia stayed on anticoagulation in the last 6 months of life, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Modeling showed that serially testing asymptomatic residents and staff in nursing homes could prevent more than 50% of SARS-CoV-2 infections in an outbreak, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Rates of COVID-19 in U.S. nursing homes fluctuated during a 6-month period last year and were reflected in the surrounding community, according to findings published in MMWR.

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living are urging governors and public health authorities to prioritize residents and staff of long-term care facilities in the first wave of COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

Now that the COVID-19 vaccine codeveloped by Pfizer and BioNTech has received emergency use authorization from the FDA, experts said physicians need to begin preparing their patients — and themselves — for vaccination.

Heavy use of contract staffing was associated with an increased risk for a COVID-19 outbreak in nursing homes, according to research presented at this year’s virtual IDWeek.

More than one-third of all UTIs reported in nursing homes were associated with a resistant pathogen, according to data published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

According to a recent study, almost 90% of patients who recovered from COVID-19 reported at least one persistent symptom.

A nursing home in Pennsylvania rapidly contained a COVID-19 outbreak by implementing a universal testing strategy for all residents and staff, according to study findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.