Geographic Variation in Pneumonia and Influenza in Long-Term Care Facilities: A National Study

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Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Jan 29. pii: ciaa081. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa081. [Epub ahead of print] [h=1]Geographic Variation in Pneumonia and Influenza in Long-Term Care Facilities: A National Study.[/h]
Bosco E[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Zullo AR[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]3,[/SUP][SUP]4[/SUP], McConeghy KW[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]4[/SUP], Moyo P[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], van Aalst R[SUP]5,[/SUP][SUP]6[/SUP], Chit A[SUP]5,[/SUP][SUP]7[/SUP], Mwenda KM[SUP]8[/SUP], Panozzo CA[SUP]9[/SUP], Mor V[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]4[/SUP], Gravenstein S[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]4,[/SUP][SUP]10[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] There is large U.S. county-level geographic variation in pneumonia and influenza (P&I) hospitalizations among short-stay and long-stay long-term care facility (LTCF) residents. LTCFs in counties in the Southern and Midwestern regions had the highest rates of P&I from 2013 to 2015. Future research should identify reasons for these geographic differences.
? The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Influenza; Long-Term Care; Medicare; Pneumonia; Spatial Analysis

PMID: 31995171 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa081