id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-321606-o0gfukzg Unruh, Mark Aaron Nursing Home Characteristics Associated with COVID-19 Deaths in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York 2020-06-15 .txt text/plain 558 40 66 title: Nursing Home Characteristics Associated with COVID-19 Deaths in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York 1 The objective of this study was to compare the characteristics 6 of nursing homes with COVID-19 deaths to other nursing homes using data from Connecticut, 7 New Jersey, and New York. 8 We merged data on nursing home characteristics from the 2017 LTCFocus database 9 (Long Term Care: Facts on Care in the US) with data on nursing homes with COVID-19 deaths 10 provided by the states of Connecticut , New Jersey, and New York. Data from Connecticut 11 included deaths as of April 16th, New Jersey as of April 20th, and New York as of April 15th. The results of our secondary analysis of nursing homes with 100 or more beds 46 (Table) were largely consistent with our primary analysis with one key exception; more direct 47 care hours per patient day were associated with a lower probability of COVID-19 deaths (-4 ./cache/cord-321606-o0gfukzg.txt ./txt/cord-321606-o0gfukzg.txt