Using data from June through September 2020, they found that nursing homes with the most staff members had cumulative resident case rates that were 92 percent higher and death rates that were 133 percent higher than those of facilities with the fewest staff members.
These results are especially noteworthy, the authors explain, because there was no clear relationship between COVID-19 outcomes and more traditional measures of staffing, such as ratios of direct care staff hours to residents or the staff skill mix.
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