COVID-19 test result turnaround time for residents, staff in US nursing homes

What The Study Did: This study used the Medicare COVID-19 Nursing Home Database, a federally mandated weekly survey of all Medicare-certified skilled nursing facilities, to examine facility-reported test result turnaround time.

Authors: Michael L. Barnett, M.D., M.S., of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7330)

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