Home Health Services in the Time of Coronavirus Disease 2019: Recommendations for Safe Transitions

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Baltimore, MD; Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
³ Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, Baltimore, MD.
⁴ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Center for Transformative Geriatrics Research, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Center for Innovative Care in Aging, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Baltimore, Baltimore, MD.

Sara C Keller et al. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;21(7):998-1000.

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.06.022. Epub 2020 Jun 18.

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Baltimore, MD; Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
³ Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, Baltimore, MD.
⁴ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Center for Transformative Geriatrics Research, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Center for Innovative Care in Aging, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Baltimore, Baltimore, MD.

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